I’m always looking for innovative ways to eat my veggies, and the simpler the better. I adapted this warm carrot salad recipe from Gwenyth Paltrow’s fantastic cookbook: It’s All Good
To make a good thing even better, I used pre shredded carrots from the market, the ones I usually toss into my salad bowl. It took mere minutes to turn that boring bag of carrots into this warm, heavenly scented and delicious salad.
Carrots are packed with Beta-carotene, which your body converts to Vitamin A- a powerful antioxidant. A diet that has sufficient vitamin A has shown to keep cancers, such as lung cancer, leukemia, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer, at bay. Seniors who consume adequate levels of dietary vitamin A also have shown to have 40% less macular degeneration- one of the larger causes of blindness in advance age.
You may eat your carrots cooked or raw. Cooking carrots does make the beta-carotene more available, and therefore more absorbable, especially when combined with fats. The light steaming in this recipe is perfect, bringing out the natural sweetness in the carrots while still maintaining a bit of crunch.
I hope you enjoy it!
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Ginger Paste
Black Sesame Seeds
Hot Sesame Oil
It’s All Good, by Gwenyth Paltrow
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons ginger paste
- 4 cups shredded carrots
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon spicy sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds
Instructions
Warm the oil in a large sauté pan and add the ginger. Cook for 30 seconds to infuse the oil with the ginger. Add the carrots, toss to coat, then add 4 tablespoon of water and cover with a lid. Steam the carrots for 2 minutes, then remove the lid and allow the water to cook off, then remove from the heat. Add the hot sesame oil, soy sauce and sesame seeds, toss and serve.