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Healthy corn salad

Crunchy juicy salad like bhelpuri. Sometimes i add all vegetable pieces i have at home like boiled potato, chopped carrots,cucumbers, mango, all depending on my mood.
Make it healthier the way we want. More the colour more the taste more the health........

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Ingredients

11/2 cup corn kernels
a handful of raw peanuts
2/3 cup cucumber, diced
2/3 cup tomato, diced
2/3 cup onion, diced
1/2 cup coriander leaves, finely chopped
1/2 tsp cumin powder
Sev or  crunchy noodles made with chickpea flour, as required
juice of 1 lemon
salt, to taste
1/2 tsp chilli powder/paprika
1 whole green chilli, quartered vertically and sliced thin

Method

Heat a skillet on high flame and then add corn kernels to it.
Dry roast the corn for a couple of minutes, stirring continuously.
Switch off flame, remove corn in a bowl and season with salt, red chilli powder, lemon juice and cumin powder.
In the same skillet, roast peanuts for a couple of minutes and then remove them in the same bowl as corn.
Now add green chillies and give this mixture a good toss.
Layer the corn in a glass, top it with tomato, cucumber, onion, coriander leaves, sev and garnish with a lemon twist and serve.

Nutritional Info:
High in carbohydrates, fiber, Vit A, C, protein and fat.


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