Our market in Mumbai used to have some foreign vegetables like lettuce, celery, broccoli, purple cabbage. Of course iceberg lettuce wasn't available when i was growing up. I know now it's readily available in India too. My aunt used to make this lovely koshimbeer. Actually, crushed & roasted peanut powder with lemon dressing in a very common Maharashtrian recipe for making Koshimbeer or Salad. But my aunt's lettuce chi koshimbeer really tastes like Oriental Salad sans meat. I even fool Gudiya and serve this koshimbeer as "Oriental Salad", up til now Gudiya used to eat this salad especially relishing chicken which was actually boiled potato. :-D Just the other day, she asked me, "Mom , are you sure this is chicken?". I think her taste buds are getting mature now and know the subtle difference (!) between a boiled potato & chicken!!;-)Lettuce Chi Koshimbeer
Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce
1 cup shredded romaine lettuce
1 small potato, boiled, peeled, diced
1 small tomato, diced
1 small cucumber, peeled, diced
1/4 cup roasted, unsalted peanuts, crushed
1 tbsp fresh coconut (optional)
1 lemon, freshly squeezed
salt to taste
1/2 tsp sugar
Tempering
1 tbsp oil
Method
1. Mix all the vegetables adding lemon juice and peanut powder.
2. After mixing well, add salt & sugar.
3. Heat oil in a small saucepan. Add dahyatlya mirchya. As they sizzle, pour over the salad/koshimbeer.
4. Stir in coconut if using
5. Mix well. Serve as a salad or with chapati.
Note-
1. Add salt & sugar after adding lemon juice. Because a huge heap of lettuce will wilt down with lemon juice. That will give you better idea for the salt quantity.
2. This is a very simple and forgiving recipe. Add more tomato or cucumber if you like. Nothing hard & fast about it. Do not skip peanut powder, lemon juice & dahyatlaya mirchya for the real taste.
3. To make a complete meal out of it, you can add some grilled tofu or paneer pieces.
This Salad goes to SWC:The Salad under 15 minutes event.
12 comments:
HeHe!! Sometimes I say that to Tushar as well that it's chicken if it's raw Jackfruit dish but kids cannot be fooled!
Lettuce Koshimbeer looks mouthwatering, will try sometime. Peanuts addition sounds great! :)
Lovely salad Meera. Usually, I'm not big on lettuce, but now I must try this. Your daughter is so cute, my 5-yr old also continuously amazes me with her observations.
Koshimbir looks very delicious & healthy Meera
oh Ya We cant fool these kids..They are way fast...salad looks very tempting..
Wow, thats a refreshing twist to koshimbeer by using lettuce. Wait till Gudiya starts reading all this n knows what you did :D. I do the same too btw ;)..
healthy salad!!just love the look of it.
healthy salad!!just love the look of it.
gr8 & unique salad...
Meera, I am not a huge fan of salads, but this koshimbeer, with some cooked ingredients like the potato, really and honestly made my mouth water. It sounds and looks great, and I surely have to give it a try.
By the way, long ago when I was still in Bombay, I'd jump to buy lettuce from my bhaajiwali on the rare occasions she had it. It always was one kind: a very small, very pale-green bunch of goodness-alone-knows-what variety, but it was precious because it wasn't easy to find. Your post brought back memories.
Asha:
I know kids are smart these days!!:-D Thanks for your feedback.
Supriya:
Thanks so much. I know kids are getting smarter day by day. It's not easy to be sneaky these days!!;-D
Trupti:
Thanks so much.
Ashwini:
Oh, your profile picture is so cute!!! Thanks for your comment.
Maya:
Ha ha!! What to do? We have to stuff the kids with all those vitamins and healthy stuff. Little bit of cheating doesn't hurt, huh?:-D
Poonam:
Welcome to my blog.Thanks for dropping by & your comment
Vanamala:
Thank you.
Vaishali:
Thanks. Hope you try and enjoy.
I honestly came to know all these names of lettuces only after coming to US. Romaine, Iceberg, boston bib...I had no idea. While still fresh in US, I cooked iceberg lettuce thinking it's cabbage. and the whole bhaaji was floating in water since lettuce is so full of water. I kept wondering why "kobi" is so watery when I didn't add any water??:-D
Meera, I started knowing salad patta use after I came here..was not knowing much of its use..I too hv done that..lettuce in place of cobi which turned to gravy in place of dry subzi ! :D Loved this use of lettuce n amazing salad..wt boiled potates n peanuts..mmmmmm..mouth watering..Shall give it a try soon!
Meera, I loved this salad ..I used only the iceburg lettuce n used cashew in place of peanuts! Wow..the taste was too good..used demerara sugar for my health conscious hub!:D We both loved it..kids hv to come to terms tasting such delighful crunch yet! Tks so much!!
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