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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Peel and grate a carrot and keep aside. | 2. Chop cucumbers (skin on) into very small cubes and keep aside. | 3. In the meantime, bring a little over half cup of water to a boil and soak the washed yellow lentils in the same. | 4. Simmer on low flame for 10-15 minutes or until tender. | 5. Now, squeeze out the excess water from the grated carrot and the chopped cucumbers by squeezing them in the palm of your hand tightly. | 6. Place the veggies in a large salad serving bowl. | 7. Now, heat oil in a frying pan over high flame. | 8. When hot, add mustard seeds and allow to crackle. | 9. Add the chopped green chilli and the white urad dal. | 10. Mix once. | 11. Add the drained yellow lentils and saute for 2 minutes on low-medium flame. | 12. Remove from heat. | 13. Toss the lentil mixture into the veggie mix. | 14. Mix well. | 15. Cover. | 16. Refrigerate and serve chilled. | 17. I enjoy this on its own as well as when I toss this into'Saffron Rice' (recipe number 47592). | 18. This also tastes really nice when mixed into yogurt and eaten. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
carrot	1		peeled grated	29.52	6.8976	0.6696	0.1728
yellow lentil	2	tablespoons	washed	-	-	-	-
lentil	1	teaspoon		1.7004	0.3552	0.1437	0.0088
mustard seed	1	teaspoon		10.16	0.5618	0.5216	0.7248
green chili	1		chopped	60.0	14.19	3.0	0.3
cucumber	2		chopped	31.92	5.7456	1.5694	0.4256
oil	2	teaspoons		74.752	0.0	0.0239	8.488999999999999

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.