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Carrot, Apple, and Cheese Salad

A very quick, easy, and tasty salad! This salad of carrot, apple, and hard cheese comes together in literally a few minutes. But despite how simple and fast it is, it turns out very tasty and healthy. Its zesty flavor is a great complement to a lunch or dinner of hot and meat dishes. If you like, you can tweak the ingredients to taste — for example, leave out the garlic so the salad isn't sharp.

Snezhana

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Apples (sweet-and-sour)

Carrots

Hard cheese

Garlic

Sour cream

Mayonnaise

Salt

Ground black pepper

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 15 % 4 g

Fats 62 % 16 g

Carbohydrates 23 % 6 g

187 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 15 min

Step 1:

How do you make carrot, apple, and cheese salad? Gather the ingredients. Everything is used as-is, with no cooking time needed. The salad turns out tastier and juicier with fresh vegetables and fruit. Wash, peel, and grate the carrot on a coarse grater or a Korean-style julienne grater.
Step 2:

You can use any hard cheese you like, but it's best to avoid varieties with a bold, strong, distinctive flavor that would overpower the other ingredients. Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater.
Step 3:

Peel a couple of garlic cloves and grate them on a fine grater or press them through a garlic press. If you're not a garlic fan or have an important meeting ahead, you can leave the garlic out entirely — the salad just won't have that zesty garlic note. The apple should go in last so it doesn't darken too much and spoil the look of the salad.
Step 4:

Firm, sweet-and-sour apple varieties are best for this salad. Wash the apples thoroughly, peel them if the skin is tough, and cut out the seedy core. Grate the flesh or cut it into thin sticks. If you like, sprinkle the grated apple with lemon juice right away to keep it from browning — but if you're serving the salad immediately, that's not necessary.
Step 5:

Put all the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Step 6:

For the dressing, it's best to use sour cream and mayonnaise together — the mayonnaise makes the flavor richer. With sour cream alone the salad will taste a bit bland, but it'll be healthier.
Step 7:

Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for 15 minutes so it chills a little and tastes better, then serve. Enjoy!

It's better to make your own mayonnaise — it'll be tastier and healthier. Check out our interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt as a dressing instead of mayonnaise, either on their own or mixed with mayonnaise in any ratio you like — this will cut down on calories.