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Vegetable bhaji salad
With cool yoghurt dressing
Vegetable bhaji salad
Serves 4
Cooks In25 minutes
DifficultySuper easy
Nutrition per serving
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Ingredients
- 2 carrots
- 3 spring onions , trimmed
- 2 red onions
- 2 fresh red chillies , deseeded and finely chopped
- 2.5 cm piece fresh ginger , peeled and finely chopped
- 150 ml vegetable oil
- mustard seeds
- 100 g rocket , washed and spun dry
- 75 g chickpea flour
- 75 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon paprika or chilli powder
- ½ level teaspoon salt
- 1 small cucumber
- 50 ml fat-free natural yoghurt
- 1 small bunch fresh coriander , leaves chopped
- 2 lemons , 1 cut into wedges
- olive oil
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 leek
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Method
- Put the flours and ground spices in a bowl and slowly pour in 250ml water. Stir with a wooden spoon or a whisk to make a bright yellow batter. Add the salt, then put to one side.
- Cut the cucumber into long ribbons with a speed peeler and keep to one side. To make the dressing, mix the yoghurt with the coriander and the juice of 1 of the lemons. Add a splash of olive oil, season, and put to one side.
- Cut the leek, carrots, spring onions and red onions into thin strips - try to get them the size of long matchsticks. Mix with the chillies and the ginger.
- Pour the oil into a large non-stick frying pan and heat until very hot. Mix the vegetables, a little at a time, with some of the batter. Add a pinch of mustard seeds and scoop out a tablespoon of the coated vegetables. Press flat with the back of a fork and carefully drop into the hot oil. Repeat with the remaining vegetables - you may have to fry the bhajis in batches. Move them around a little in the hot oil (with a pair of tongs) to make sure they aren't sticking together. Fry for a minute or so on each side until crispy, then drain on kitchen paper. Place some rocket and cucumber ribbons on individual plates, drizzle with the yoghurt dressing and top with 2 or 3 bhajis. Serve with the lemon wedges.
