Moroccan Inspired Carrot Salad

If you, like me, are not the biggest carrot fan but desperately want to introduce this vitamin packed veggie into your diet, this salad might just do it. You can make the dressing is bland or overpowering as you like, and play around with the ratio of the other ingredients, depending on your preferences. You can also incorporate the carrots in any way you like – I personally like to “shave” instead of shred them, because for whatever reason I feel they absorb the dressing better this way (and look cooler in pictures). Having said that, let’s get to the salad recipe.

Ingredients
(serves two)

four medium sized carrots
50g of raisins
50g salted peanuts
a branch of fresh mint
(typically cilantro is used but I personally tried both options and prefer the mint one)
two tbsp honey
two tbsp olive oil
a tsp harissa
a tsp of salt
half a tsp black pepper
a tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

1. Peel your carrots of the outer skin, and discard it. Continue peeling (or shaving them as I call it) adding them to a serving bowl, along with the raisins, peanuts and chopped mint / cilantro.

2. Mix the honey, olive oil, harissa pastem salt, pepper and lemon juice in a small bowl and add them to the carrots.

3. Let the whole thing chill for about an hour for the dressing to properly soak in and marinate, and toss before serving.