Great recipe that you can enjoy for lunch, dinner, or snack. And it's loaded with health-promoting vitamin A— in fact one serving provides 133% of your Daily Value for this important nutrient!
Prep and Cook Time: 15 minutes
Serves 4
Ingredients:
• 2-3 medium carrots (2 cups peeled and shredded)
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh or canned pineapple
• 1 TBS chopped cilantro
Dressing
• 1/4 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 TBS honey
• 1 tsp orange zest
• 1 TBS fresh lemon juice
• 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
• salt and white pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Blend all dressing ingredients together in blender adding olive oil a little at a time at end.
2. Shred carrots in food processor or use a hand grater, which will take a little more time. Depending on how big they are, it will take about 2 or 3 carrots.
3. Mix carrots with raisins and pineapple, and toss with desired amount of dressing. Stir in chopped cilantro.
Nutritional FYI
Carrots are an excellent source of antioxidant compounds, and the richest vegetable source of the pro-vitamin A carotenes. Carrots' antioxidant compounds help protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer and also promote good vision, especially night vision.
Turmeric the bright yellow of the spice rainbow, is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese and Indian systems of medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent to treat a wide variety of conditions, including flatulence, jaundice, menstrual difficulties, bloody urine, hemorrhage, toothache, bruises, chest pain, and colic.
