Whenever Count Dracula feels like a salad, this is the one he makes. He loves the bright orange of carrots, the bright red of beet, and the crunch of green onion and almonds. It’s a scarily tasty treat. He always makes Count Your Blessings Salad Dressing to go with it – be sure to make the dressing before starting the salad. Mwuh-ha-haha-ha!
Dracula’s Carrot Salad
Ingredients:
- 1 beet (beetroot)
- 3 carrots
- 2 green onions (spring onions)
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1 serving “Count Your Blessings Salad Dressing” (recipe below)
- 12 almonds
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- 2 tablespoons cilantro (coriander) leaves (pack leaves gently into spoon)
How to Make It:
- Peeling and grating beet is a messy job, so protect your hands by putting on some rubber gloves (and make sure you have your apron on, too!). Thoroughly clean the draining board next to the sink, and fill the sink with a little water. Put the large glass or stainless steel bowl beside the draining board.
- Scrub the beet and carrots in the sink, and peel the outer skin from the beet with the vegetable peeler (to make it easier to peel, you could chop off the beet’s long root before peeling).
- Place the grater on the clean draining board, and grate the beet onto it. Make sure you use the “coarse-grate” side. Place the grated beet into the bowl, and rinse down the draining board and grater. You could remove the rubber gloves now, or keep them on to grate the carrots.
- On the chopping board, coarsely grate the carrots. Add the grated carrot to the bowl.
- Peel the outer skin from the green onions, and chop off the root end off the onions. Chop the white part of the onions (and about 1 1⁄2 inches – 4cm – of the green part) into little circles. Add the chopped green onions and salad dressing to the bowl of beet and carrot, and combine gently with the fork.
- Chop the cilantro and almonds roughly, and set aside.
- Use the tongs to serve the salad into the glass serving bowls.
- Sprinkle the raisins over the top of each salad, followed by the chopped almonds and cilantro.
- Serve.
Here’s an extra tip! To make the raisins extra plump and juicy, try soaking them overnight in a tea cup, using water or the juice of an orange.
Count Your Blessings Salad Dressing
This creamy, tangy orange dressing is perfect on green salads, but it’s also fabulous mixed through Dracula’s Carrot Salad. Yes, Count Dracula loves this one…
Ingredients:
- 1 orange
- 2 tablespoons macadamia oil
- 2 teaspoons almond butter
- teensy pinch Celtic sea salt
How to Make It:
- Wash and dry the orange thoroughly.
- Use the “fine-grate” side of the grater to grate the zest of half the orange. Put the zest into the small bowl.
- Cut the orange in half and use the citrus juicer to juice the orange. Add the juice to the bowl.
- Add the macadamia oil, almond butter and sea salt to the bowl.
- Use the mini whisk to whisk the ingredients together, until everything is completely blended.
- Serve over your favorite salad.
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