( A healthy salad recipe created with boiled corn kernels, and moong sprouts).

Wanting to have a delicious, healthy yet simple weeknight dinner? Not wanting to stuff yourself with the mundane food? Then a salad recipe should be your pick. The salad recipe I am about to share with you just needs chopping some veggies, cooking corn and sprouts, and making a simple salad dressing…Voila! dinner is done! If you are not a ‘salad for dinner’ kinda person, serve this as a side dish! In any case, do give this salad a try.

Ingredients

For the salad -

• 1.5 cup corn kernels

• 1 cup moong/green gram sprouts

• 1 onion finely chopped

• 8-10 cherry tomatoes sliced

• 1 cucumber finely chopped

• 2 tbsp black olives

• 6-7 mint leaves

• 1 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped

• 2 regular cheese cubes / 2 tbsp feta cheese

  For the dressing -

• 4 tbsp olive oil

• 2 tbsp red wine vinegar

• 4-5 garlic cloves minced

• a dash of black pepper powder

• salt as per taste

• juice of 1 lemon
  
  

Method

• Soak whole moong/ green gram in water overnight. Drain the water in the morning and keep them aside for sprouting.

• Once they sprout, add very little water to a pan and add the sprouts to it. Heat them with a lid on, stirring intermittently. After about 10 - 15 minutes, the water will have cooked the sprouts perfectly. In the meantime, if needed, just add a little water to ensure the sprouts don’t go dry and burn. Keep aside.

• In a large bowl, mix boiled corn, sprouts, chopped onion, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, black olives, mint leaves, cheese, and coriander well.

• Mix all the ingredients for salad dressing in a small bowl and mix well.

• Pour the dressing over the salad and toss it gently to mix everything well.

• Garnish with mint and coriander leaves.

• You can refrigerate it for an hour.

CORN - MOONG SPROUTS SALAD IS READY TO BE SERVED!!

Notes -

• You can use regular tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes.

• If you don’t have red wine vinegar, use regular white vinegar instead.

• This salad can be refrigerated for a day. So, if you have guests coming in, just make it ahead of time and keep it in the fridge. Add the cheese just before serving.