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Carrot Raisin Salad Recipe:
A sweet, crunchy and creamy quick carrot salad recipe. The carrots are grated to release their wonderful sweetness and then combined with plump and juicy raisins, crisp apples and a creamy cinnamon dressing to create this delicious and easy salad.
Enjoy as a side salad or a nice light dessert that you can put together in minutes. Whichever way that you choose to serve this carrot raisin salad, it will add great flavor to any meal all year long.
Take a look at the ingredient exchanges and menu planner for some quick meal ideas and easy ways to add variety and a different taste every time to this quick salad recipe.
3-4 servings
You will need 5 ingredients:
- Carrots
- Raisins
- Apples
- Sour Cream
- Ground Cinnamon
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Ingredients:
carrots 2 cups grated
raisins 3 tbsp
(if you want to plum up your raisins, just soak
in a little warm water to cover for a few minutes)
red delicious apples 1 large or 2 small apples diced
sour cream 3/4 cup
ground cinnamon 1 tsp
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In a mixing bowl, combine the carrots, raisins, apples, sour cream and cinnamon. Toss well to combine all ingredients.
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Quick Meals - Menu Planner:
Meal Ideas:
** Serve this quick carrot raisin salad recipe along side a pork or chicken entr้e and steamed broccoli.
** For an unusual meal with great taste, serve carrot raisin salad along with warm rice or rice noodles that have been seasoned with grated ginger and soy sauce.
Dessert Ideas:
** Since this is a sweet salad, try serving this quick salad as a dessert spooned into dessert bowls with cinnamon twists or cinnamon graham crackers on the side. It's a quick and delicious dessert any time.
** Or you can dress up the dessert idea by serving our carrot raisin salad in ready-to-use graham cracker tart shells with with an extra sprinkling of cinnamon and chopped almonds on top.
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With just a couple of ingredient exchanges you can add a little different twist to this carrot raisin salad recipe in no time.
* Instead of Red Delicious Apples: use different apples like: Yellow Delicious Apples, Gala Apples, Macintosh or Rome Apples
* Instead of Sour Cream: try a combination of Cottage Cheese and Sour Cream, or Ricotta and Sour Cream or just Greek Style Yogurt
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