Beetroot Salad With Peanuts – Beet And Carrot Salad

Beetroot Salad is an absolutely heavenly salad, so simple to make and bursting with nutrients and flavour. A great meatless dish, the salad features beets, carrots, chopped onions, green chillies, roasted peanuts and lemon juice. This is an excellent way to use beetroot. It makes a DEEEELISH salad!

Beetroot Health Benefits:

Beetroots also known as beets, table beets, red beets, dinner beets, garden beets or golden beets are the taproot portions of a beet plants. Vibrant in colour and earthy in flavor, beets are extremely nutritious and loaded with essential vitamins and minerals.

Beets are low in calories. They help keep blood pressure under check, help fight inflammation, improve digestive health and have anti-cancer properties.

Beetroot Salad Recipe:

The flavours and textures of this healthy and fresh-tasting beetroot salad work really well together. The combination of beets, carrots, and peanuts really pops your taste buds.

The sweetness of beets paired with the crunch of peanuts gives this salad a whole new twist. And a hint of fresh lemon juice lends a wonderful tang to this vegan salad.

It is so delicious, that those who hate beetroot will reconsider. This nice and easy dish is my go-to salad recipe.

For this grated beet and peanut salad, firstly heat some oil in a small kadai. Add the raw peanuts and fry till they start to pop. Remove and keep aside to cool.

Next wash the beetroots and carrots well. Top and tail them and then grate them. Keep aside.

Also finely chop the onion, green chillies and coriander leaves.

In a large serving bowl, combine the grated beet, grated carrot, chopped onions, green chillies. Season with salt.

Add peanuts and chopped coriander.

Drizzle fresh lemon juice and toss the beetroot carrot salad well to combine.

Serve Beet Salad with Sesame Rice and Spinach Raita.

If you are searching for more delicious salad recipes, then do try out Egg Mayo Salad.

Raw Beet Salad Recipe details below:

Beet and Peanut Salad Recipe

Vegan raw beet salad is an excellent combination of flavours. I just love the crunch of the peanuts against the soft beets. Full of natural goodness, this is a very good salad for those who don't care for beets.

Course Salad

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

Total Time 15

Servings 6

Calories 35kcal

Author Shil

Ingredients

1 cup grated beetroot
½ cup grated carrot
2 green chillies chopped finely
2 tbsp chopped onions
1/8 cup peanuts
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/8 tsp of chopped coriander leaves

Instructions

To make this beet and peanut salad, firstly heat oil in a shallow pan and fry the peanuts till well browned and crunchy. Remove the peanuts with a slotted spoon onto a plate and allow to cool.
Next grate the carrots and beetroots. Keep aside.
Finely chop the onions, green chillies and coriander leaves.
Take a large bowl and add the grated carrot and beet to it. Put in the chopped onion, chillies, coriander and roasted peanuts. Season with salt and gently toss.
Lastly, drizzle lemon juice and combine well.
Serve fresh Beet and Carrot Salad with Pulao and Raita