Peanut salad / Shenga Kosambari


When you get raw and fresh peanuts, we can prepare healthy salad / kosambari. Alternatively, we can use dried peanut, soak it and use. Here is the recipe.


Ingredients
Raw peanuts - 1 cup
Carrots - 2
Onion - 3 medium sized
Lemon - 1/2
Grated coconut - 3 to 4 spoons
Coriander leaves - 1 small bunch
Salt to taste

For tempering
Oil - 1 spoon
Mustard seeds - 1/2 spoon
Green chillies - 2 to 3

Use fresh raw peanuts and remove skin. If it is not the season, you can soak the dried peanuts and use.

Wash and cook the peanuts in a pressure cooker along with little salt for about 3 whistles. Allow it to cool down.

Remove the skin of the carrots and grate them using a grater. Grind the green chillies to prepare chilly paste. Chop the coriander leaves into small pieces.

Remove the skin of the onions and chop into small pieces.

Heat the tempering spatula. Add oil and mustard seeds. When mustard seeds starts spattering, add green chilly paste. Cook for 10 seconds.

Open cooker and drain the excess water. Transfer the peanuts onto a vessel.

Now add grated carrots, grated coconut, chopped onions, lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves, tempering (oggarane), salt and mix well.

This can be served along with lunch or as morning or evening snacks. Can also be served as side dish along with roti, chapati etc.





 







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