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There’s no cooking required with this Quick Carrot & Apple Salad; all raw ingredients! We developed this recipe last minute when we needed something quick for Sunday lunch at Mom’s house. Everyone really enjoyed it. It makes for a very good side dish.
I’ve found that organic carrots tend to be sweeter and take this entire salad up a notch. Costco sells big bags of organic carrots dirt cheap, minus the dirt. 😉 I can’t wait to try this with homegrown carrots. Actually, I can’t wait for homegrown something,… anything! I’ve had it up to ↑here with grey avocados and cardboard tomatoes!
P.S. If you have a food processor with a grater attachment, use it and your salad will be ready in under 10 minutes!
Ingredients for Carrot & Apple Salad:
4 medium carrots, coarsely grated
1 apple, diced
3/4 cup craisins (dried cranberries)
1/4 cup purple, yellow or sweet onion, finely diced
Dressing Ingredients:
1/2 cup real mayonnaise
2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 Tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp sea salt, or to taste
pinch of black pepper, freshly ground
How to Make Carrot & Apple Salad:
1. In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup mayo, 2 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 Tbsp sugar, pinch of salt and pepper and stir everything together.
2. Coarsely grate your carrots (this is super fast using the food processor) and transfer carrots to a large mixing bowl. Dice your apples ( used my Vidalia chop wizard) and finely dice your onion and add them to the bowl along with your craisins.
3. Add the salad dressing to taste when ready to serve and mix the salad together.
Enjoy! This salad is quick, easy and delicious. My family approved ;).
Carrot Apple Salad Recipe
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 4 medium carrots, coarsely grated
- 1 apple, diced
- 3/4 cup craisins, dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup purple or sweet onion, finely diced
For the Dressing:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise, real mayo or vegenaise
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 Tbsp sugar
- 1/8 tsp sea salt, or to taste
- pinch of black pepper, freshly ground
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup mayo, 2 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 Tbsp sugar, pinch of salt and pepper and stir everything together.
- Coarsely grate your carrots (this is super fast using the food processor) and transfer carrots to a large mixing bowl. Dice your apples and finely dice your onion and add them to the bowl along with your craisins.
- Add the salad dressing to taste when ready to serve and stir the salad together.
- Enjoy! This salad is quick, easy and delicious. My family approved ;).
Natasha Kravchuk
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Can you add the dressing to the salad and refrigerate it for several hours? The receipe mentions adding the dressing when ready to serve but I wondered if there was any harm in adding it earlier and letting it sit in the fridge. Thanks!
It might make the salad soggy if you add the dressing ahead.