Carrot & Celery Salad with Orange & Rice Vinegar dressing

I don't know about you but I love salads that combine vegetables and fruit and sweet and sour flavours. This salad features some everyday fruits and vegetables - carrot, celery, raisins and some walnuts. The dressing combines freshly squeezed orange juice and rice vinegar along with some extra virgin olive oil. Rice vinegar is great in salad dressings - it gives you a slighly sour flavour but without overpowering the sweetness of the ornage juice and the raisins.

This salad and dressing is so simple, it can be prepared in 15 minutes. It is substantial enough that you can serve it for 2 as a light lunch or supper. The same amount works equally well as 4 side salads. The only slightly exotic ingredient is the rice vinegar. If there's none in your pantry or if you can't easily get hold of any, then by all means use a tbsp of apple cider vinegar as a substitute.

If this is the sort of salad recipe you like, you can find the Youtube tutorial by clicking Carrot & Celery Salad with Orange & Rice Vinegar Dressing or scroll to the bottom of the page. The written recipe is just below.

Happy Cooking! Kurumi XXXX.

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ingredients:

(makes 2 ample servings or 4 servings as a side dish)

for the salad:

2 stalks of celery

250g / 9 oz carrots, peeled

4 tbsp raisins or saltanas

4 tbsp walnuts halves

for the dressing:

1 medium orange

a pinch of salt

1 tbsp rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar

2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil

some fresh chopped green herbs such as chives or parsely for topping

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how to:

top and tail the celery stalks, removing any discoloured parts. thinly slice the stalks diagonally

grate the carrots into a bowl. add the sliced celery, raisins and walnut halves to the bowl

to make a dressing:

squeeze the orange. pour the juice and any orange flesh into a jug. remove any pips

add the salt, rice vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. stir well

add the dressing to the salad and stir everthing together

garnish with the chopped herb leaves

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