Tasty boiled carrot salad.
Do you like boiled carrots? I certainly don’t! Anyone who follows me already knows that vegetables, alas, have never been among my favorite foods. They also know that since you can’t live on sweets alone, as I’d like to, sometimes I too must sacrifice and eat them. So I have to find tricks, like with children, to make myself like them. I must confess boiled carrots are among the vegetables I like least—perhaps second only to beets, my sworn enemies. Here I dress them with simple but tasty, easy-to-find ingredients to make this boiled carrot salad flavorful, even for my picky palate!
Here are some other very good recipes with carrots:
- Cost: Very inexpensive
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 2 Servings
- Cooking methods: Boiling
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 14 oz carrots
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- to taste olive oil (10)
- to taste salt
- 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
Tools
- 1 Knife
- 1 Saucepan
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Spoon
Steps
This recipe is really simple to prepare. Trim and lightly scrape the carrots with a serrated knife or with a vegetable peeler.
Meanwhile, bring lightly salted water to a boil.
Boil the carrots in boiling water for 10-15 minutes depending on their size. Drain them when cooked and cut into slices.
Put the carrots in a large bowl and dress them with the little sauce you prepared by mixing mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, olive oil and salt in a small bowl. Mix well with a spoon.
Now add the chopped parsley to the dressed carrots and mix again.
Your tasty boiled carrot salad is ready; taste it and adjust the salt if needed.
I recommend:
I recommend letting the dressed carrots rest for about an hour to absorb the flavors; they will be even tastier.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
Can I boil the carrots already sliced into rounds?
Certainly; in that case they will cook much faster—you will need about 5 minutes.
