Vegetable Salad with Beans and Cottage Cheese
Vegetable Salad with Beans and Cottage Cheese
Simple everyday salad, ideal for those who are looking to eat minimum to no carbs. Easy to make lunch or dinner preparation.
Ingredients:
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Serves
2
Ingredients:
- Black Eyed Beans (Lobia) - 1 cup
- Cottage Cheese (Paneer) - 200 grams
- Fenugreek (Methi) Green Sprouts - 1 small bunch
- Cucumber - 1 Medium
- Tomatoes - 2 medium
- Broccoli - 300 grams
- Butter - 15 grams
- Salt - To taste
- Freshly ground pepper - To taste
Method:
Advanced Prep - Soak black eyed beans overnight in water.
Prep -
- Pressure cook the soaked black eyed beans to the softness you like with one teaspoon of Salt.
- Dice Cottage Cheese (Paneer) into 0.5 inch cubes.
- Dice Cucumber into semicircles with desired thickness
- Dice Tomatoes into 1 inch pieces
- Blanche broccoli in salted water for 2 minutes, drain and shock them in an ice bath
- Finely chop coriander leaves and keep.
Cook -
- Heat butter in a wok on a slow flame, add freshly ground pepper and cubed cottage cheese. Mix well so as to coat the butter and pepper all over the cubes.
- Cook with lid for 1 minute, then stir and cook for another minute.
- Now add broccoli and beans and toss for about 20 seconds on a slow flame. then transfer to the salad bowl
- Add methi greens, cucumber and tomatoes and toss the salad.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve -
- Serve them in a shallow plate or a bowl, can garnish with fresh coriander.
- Can be served on a bed of lettuce leaves too!
Your low-carb, vegetable and beans salad for two is ready!