The Easiest Ever Carrot-sesame Salad

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 medium carrots
• 3/4 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 dash soy sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon dark sesame oil (toasted)
• roughly chopped parsley (optional)

Recipe

• 1 peel the carrots and shred them with a coarse grater.
• 2 put in a bowl with the chopped parsley. add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
• 3 the flavor mellows if you can let it rest for an hour or more (overnight is good).
• 4 drain off some of the juice when serving. the leftover juice is very tasty ad could be added to a green salad as dressing.
• 5 variations;.
• 6 add a tablespoon or so of toasted sesame seeds.
• 7 add some julienned red chili pepper for a spicy version.
• 8 if you have access to an japanese grocery, you can substitute dashi granules or konbu powder for the salt. you can substitute ponzu (a citrusy vinegar/condiment that makes a great salad dressing base) for the lemon juice.