Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Spicy Cucumber & Mixed Veggies Salad

Even the weather is quite chilled outside, we never stopped having our usual salads, few days back i prepared a quick,easy breezy salad with cucumber,tomatoes,sweet corns,cooked chickpeas and red bellpepper which i spiced with red chilly powder, dry herbs,mayonnaise and crushed garlic, needless to say that this salad tastes absolutely fabulous,mildly spicy and definitely flavourful..You can have this colourful and easy salad  anytime of the day, obviously a prefect,refreshing salad for hot summer lunch or for dinner,you can also carry them in ur lunch box..Sending this salad to A Veggie/Fruit for a month-Cucumber guest hosted by Richa,event by Priya and to Jyoti's Healthy & Hearty,Vardhini's U event..
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1no Cucumber (medium size & cubed)
2nos Tomatoes (cubed)
1/2cup Sweet corn kernels
1/2cup Cooked chickpeas
1no Red bellpepper (cubed)
2nos Garlic cloves (crushed)
1/2tsp Kashmiri red chilly powder
1tsp Dry parsley leaves
Salt
2tbsp Mayonnaise
1tsp Oil

Mix together the crushed garlic cloves,red chilly powder, dry parsley leaves,mayonnaise,salt and oil in a bowl and keep aside..

Meanwhile take all the veggies in a bowl, add the already prepared spicy dressing to the prepared salad as per need and serve immediately..

51 comments:

Shilpakiran said... Reply To This Comment

salads are always good for health and this one looks really healthy thanks for sharing

Sangeetha Nambi said... Reply To This Comment

Tempting me !

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

The most common salad looks colorful and most delicious. Mayonnaise?(egg)? do we have to make it and add?

Faseela said... Reply To This Comment

lovely, healthy salad..........

Kurinji said... Reply To This Comment

yummy and healthy salad..

Abhilash Pillai said... Reply To This Comment

healthy salad Priya

~Lexibule~ said... Reply To This Comment

A salad as I love them:) Good Tuesday! xxx

Santosh Bangar said... Reply To This Comment

healthy tempting colorfulsalad

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

absolutely mouth watering...loved the sprinkle of chili powder.

Ramya said... Reply To This Comment

healthy and colourful salad

garlutti said... Reply To This Comment

Thank you for your recipes, this salad is great, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2102 ENTRY .. I also invite you to my apple pie ... kisses Marimi

Mary Bergfeld said... Reply To This Comment

What a colorful salad. It looks beautiful and sounds delicious. I hope you have a good day. Blessings...Mary

cookbookjaleela said... Reply To This Comment

very healthy and colourful salad priya

Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

wow such an eye catchy click n yummy healthy salad Priya Jee..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

That looks wholesome and yum, Priya! Could do with a bowl like that for lunch today :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

That looks wholesome and yum, Priya! Could do with a bowl like that for lunch today :)

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

salad looks wonderful..love this spicy method!!

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and colorful looking salad. Wonderful preparation.

Deepa
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Sangeetha M said... Reply To This Comment

this looks hearty and healthy, flavorful too...looking so nice n colorful!!
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Finla said... Reply To This Comment

I am not a huge cicumber fan well atleast not the one we get here, i lov emuch more the ones we get in India. But i think made like this i would like.

Latha said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and colorful salad...YUM!

Aarthi said... Reply To This Comment

I love this..Thanks for the recipe..This looks mouthwatering

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Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

Sounds so very refreshing and yummy.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

These days I started to hunt easy salad recipe despite of the weather. very refreshing salad priya.

Swati Sapna said... Reply To This Comment

I have been carrying a very similar salad every day to work for my evening snack! Tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, green tomatoes and chickpeas. With a dressing of vinegar, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. Its super tasty, just like yours im sure :)

Mimi said... Reply To This Comment

What a refreshing salad.
Mimi

Nada said... Reply To This Comment

Miam Miam...

Spicy-Aroma said... Reply To This Comment

That looks yummy and healthy too!!

Reshmi Mahesh said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and colorful salad...

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious salad I love to try it.

NiVi said... Reply To This Comment

healthy salad to fit in lunch box... :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

A colorful looking delicious salad!

Priyanka Agrawal said... Reply To This Comment

looks yummy, plz pass me some

Pushpa said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and refreshing salad Priya.

Torviewtoronto said... Reply To This Comment

delicious looking flavourful combination

Anu said... Reply To This Comment

very healthy and nice post..

Elisabeth said... Reply To This Comment

Priya-this healthy, colorful, and fresh yummy salad, is being added to my list of healthy recipes!
Thanks for sharing, absolutely love it:DDD

Sravs said... Reply To This Comment

healthy salad with spicy touch !!

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Sum said... Reply To This Comment

Nice healthy salad...

Gopika Ram said... Reply To This Comment

Woww.. thats one yummy and healthy looking dish :)

Ganga Sreekanth said... Reply To This Comment

so tempting preperation...healthy

Valarmathi Sanjeev said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely salad recipe....looks yumm.

Shanthi Krishnakumar said... Reply To This Comment

Such a healthy and colourful salad

Gayathri NG said... Reply To This Comment

healthy n refreshing salad...

Treat and Trick said... Reply To This Comment

So colorful and healthy salad!


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divya said... Reply To This Comment

Woww.. .mouth watering here.. looks absolutely delicious and healthy..

Sensible Vegetarian said... Reply To This Comment

Looks superb so refreshing.

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

That looks awesome.. can't wait to try it.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Colorful n healthy salad

Vardhini said... Reply To This Comment

Love salads .. yummy. Thx for linking to the event.

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