Cold-Moulded Salad

Ingredients for Cold-Moulded Salad:

1. Water – 4 cups
    Salt – ½ small spoons
2. Cabbage, carrot, tender beans – cut into small square pieces of equal size – ¼ cup
    Green peas – ¼ cup
3. Green apple after removing skin and seeds – cut into small square pieces of equal size – ¼ cup
4. Gelatin – 1 packet
    Water – As required
5. Curd without sour taste – 1 cup
    Mayonnaise – ¼ cup
    Lemon juice – from half lemon
    Honey – 1 drop
6. Coriander leaves finely chopped – 1 small spoon

Method of preparation of Cold-Moulded Salad:

1. Add salt to water and boil it.
2. Put each vegetable item one by one in hot water and take out. 1.5 minutes are required for cabbage, and a little more time required for the rest vegetables. Vegetables should never loss their freshness.
3. Later remove water content from vegetables using a cotton cloth.
4. Add a little lemon juice to apple pieces and keep aside.
5. Mix gelatin in a little water and heat it so that contents get dissolved. Allow it to cool.
6. Mix all ingredients listed under 5 in a bowl, and gelatin to it. Mix the contents well.
7. Add vegetables, coriander and apple pieces to it and transfer the contents to a mould.
8. Place the contents in refrigerator to cool.
9. Just before serving, immerse the mould in hot water and flip once to a serving bowl.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine April 15-30 2017

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