Varied salad (Peruvian recipes)

Total time: 60 minutes. Total amount: 4 people.

Delicious vegan salad for your important occasion.

The Varied Salad is a vegan meal that, unlike the Vegetable and Mayonnaise Salad, is a vegetarian recipe that incorporates vegetables such as: lettuce, carrots, onion, pickle (cucumber), and lemon juice. As its name indicates, it is a salad with a variety of vegetables that we can prepare for our daily diet. You can find the ingredients in a local market, and you should always choose the freshest ones.

Let's see how to cook it!

Varied salad (Peruvian recipes)

Ingredients.

• One lettuce (fresh and washed).
• 3 carrots (fresh and shredded).
• One medium onion, cut into feathers.
• 250 g of fresh olives.
• 1 small cucumber.
• 2 small radishes and cut the tails.
• Olive oil.
• Salt to taste, or optional.
• Lemon juice.

The Varied Salad is a vegan meal that, unlike the Vegetable and Mayonnaise Salad, is a vegetarian

Procedure of the recipe.

1. Wash the ingredients that we have acquired in a local market, or a shopping mall. Many people think that buying in a mall is better; this will depend on the location, the distance between you and the ingredients; but do not forget to do a deep cleaning.
2. On a bowl or salad bowl; cut the fresh lettuce into small pieces, and leave them on top of the bowl.
3. Wash and peel the gherkins, carrots, radishes, and onion,
4. Add the olives, and proceed to prepare with olive oil, lemon juice and salt to taste.
5. Serve on plates or in the meals of your choice. Always move from one side to the other so that the juice takes consistency.

Gherkin, ingredient.

Note: Many times, there is confusion between Cucumber and Gherkin; in many geographical places cucumber is a fruit, and gherkin is a vegetable. In Peru, it is usually called gherkin.

 

Preparation video in Spanish.