Making salads amongst cucumber is i of my favorites. It makes a bully accompaniment to diverse rice dishes similar pulao, biryani, puliyogre( tamarind rice), lemon rice etc. Cucumber is also real versatile. You could chop it, die it, grate it, peel it .. The options are many. It easily compliments near other veggies move inward a salad. My intent when I took the lonely cucumber out from the fridge was to brand a regular cucumber onion salad. Then I came across one-half a pack of corn inward the freezer which I wanted to move rid of. I decided to move it inward the salad. The terminate final result was delicious, crisp salad. My boy did non direct maintain the patience to await for me to direct maintain a picture! :)
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Servings: 3
Ingredients:
Cucumber: 1 medium, washed too diced.
Whole Corn kernels : 1 loving cup (fresh, canned, frozen)
Onion: 1 small, chopped.
Spring onion/ greenish onion: 2, chopped
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Lemon zest: 1 tsp
Extra virgin olive oil: iii tbsp
Cilantro: 1 tbsp, chopped
Salt: 1/4- 1/2 tsp
Pepper: 1/2 tsp
Method:
In a salad bowl, add together all the higher upward ingredients too mix well. Refrigerate until laid upward to use.
Serve chilled amongst rice dishes or flatbread .
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
If you lot are using canned corn inward the higher upward dish, brand certain you lot rinse the corn, drain it too thus move it.
If you lot are using frozen corn, brand certain you lot thaw it, steam it for 1 infinitesimal inward the microwave, drain it too permit it cool to room temperature earlier adding it to the salad.
Other vegetables similar diced carrots, small-scale cauliflower florets tin move used inward the higher upward dish.
Tip for good for you lot living:
According to Ayurveda,cucumber has a cooling final result on the trunk when eaten.
Cucumber also helps move rid of nighttime circles merely about the eyes.Place i round off cucumber while on each optic too remainder for 1 hour. You volition wake upward feeling refreshed. Do this for a few days too you lot volition run across the nighttime circles cut down significantly.
References:
http://visual.ly/7-wonderful-benefits-cucumber-healthy-skin
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/16-superb-health-benefits-of-cucumber.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/036769_cucumbers_health_benefits_rehydration.html
Food for thought:
We may move personally defeated, but our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison