Madras plaid salad, take two
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Author Notes: The madras blend of fruits and vegetable remain fresh and vibrant with their all colors in this salad. I really like all the contrasts- sweet and sour, crunchy and soft, bright and dark. When I first made this salad I had many additional ingredients, most of which were grated. In the revised version, I am suggesting threadlike julienne instead. You can then toss and "weave" the ingredients together, loosely like thread woven into a cloth, with a very simple light dressing to accentuate the madras plaid effect. - Sagegreen
Serves 4
- 2 beets, one red and one golden preferably (about 1 cup)
- 1 sweet plum or pluot, julienned (@ 1/2 cup)
- 1/2 cup fresh mango, julienne sliced
- 2 small carrots, preferably of different colors, julienned (@ 1 cup)
- 1 1/2 inch fresh ginger, peeled and thinly julienned
- 8 lemon verbena leaves, rolled and snipped
- pinch of cumin, optional
- pinch of kosher or pink Himalayan coarse salt
- juice of 1 lemon, preferably Meyer, or sweet lime
- juice from half a sweet orange
- drizzle of EVOO, first cold press preferred
- Assembly all of the salad ingredients, julienne sliced (about an inch and a half long) in a bowl, allowing their colors to bleed into one another. Add the herb, optional spice, and salt. Gently toss to intermingle the ingredients.
- Squeeze the citrus juice over the salad.
- Drizzle with EVOO. Gently toss again. Serve slightly chilled.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dish in the Raw
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Carrot Recipe
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Brown Bag Lunch
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe for Plums
Tags: beets, carrots,mango, plums, sweet and savory
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almost 2 years ago lorigoldsby
Sagegreen, I cannot keep up with all of your truly lovely and beautiful salads! I'm just so glad it is the beginning of summer so I can work my way through each one!
almost 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thanks, lori!
almost 2 years ago sdebrango
Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Spectacular colors, reallly beautiful!
almost 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thanks, sdebrango. I hope this version is happier.
almost 2 years ago boulangere
Cynthia is a trusted source on Bread/Baking.
Love the title - I remember when madras everything was all the rage.
almost 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thanks, b. I have revised this recipe a lot, which I hope is in the right direction. Now, the julienned fruits can actually weave with the vege to create a true bleeding madras plaid.
about 2 years ago wssmom
This looks so familiar -- I remember wearing Madras shorts as a teenager!! How beautiful!
about 2 years ago Sagegreen
LOL, thanks!
about 2 years ago hardlikearmour
hardlikearmour is a trusted home cook.
Wow! Love the variety of ingredients you've used. Can't wail till my plum and pluot trees are producing.
about 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thanks, this was a post from the summer I thought I would submit to make entry no. 200 to carrot week. Quite a boat load of entries this week!
over 2 years ago AppleAnnie
This sounds like a salad I would love to eat.
over 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thanks, AppleAnnie!
over 2 years ago JoanG
This is absolutely beautiful, and such an interesting and unusual combination! Would love to try it.
over 2 years ago Sagegreen
Thank you so much. In this version the beets are used raw. It is really healthy and tasty!