North African carrot salad

North african carrot salad

This recipe is from the eastern part of Algeria and Tunisia as well . It is a very simple recipe and it can make a nice starter .It can be eaten cold or even warm .In Tunisia this salad is known as Oum Houriya ,the carrots are not sliced but pureed .



Carrot salad


Ingredients:

1 lb of carrots
2 spoons of olive oil
one tea spoon of harissa (chili paste) you could use hot salsa intead
salt
peper
2 cloves of garlic
one tea spoon of cumin
one tea spoon of carvi powder
some lemon juice

Cut your carrots into slices and boil them . Add some salt to the water .
Drain them once they are cooked . Put your carrots in salad bowl and add olive oil harissa the cumin and the carvi powder the salt and pepper (to your convenience)then the garlic shopped into small pieces . Add at the end the lemon juice .
you can decorate with black Kalamata olives .

Pour les francophones
Ingredients
1 livre de carottes coupees en rondelles
sel poivre
1cacafe de cumin en poudre
1cac de carvi en poudre
2ou3 gousses dail
2cas dhuile d`olive
le jus dun demi citron
1cac de harissa (si vous voulez que la salade soit piquante)

Mettre les carottes a bouillir .Dans un saldier mettre lecumin ,carvi ,sel poivre harissa huile d`olive citron ail (vous pouvez le reduire en puree si vous preferez) ,melanger le tout puis ajoutez vos carottes .
decorez de quelques feuillesde persil et d`olives noires . cest une salde qui se mange froide ,tiede ou meme chaude ,avous de choisir .