Rainbow Chaat Masala Salad

Bella's Rainbow Chaat Masala salad recipe

This is a very versatile recipe in that you can clean out the crisper drawer or put in anything you like. Don't have green onions? White works too! As do shallots.

I personally recommend using rainbow carrots for added variety in taste and color.

Hate cilantro? Does it taste like soap to you? You can use parsley, fresh chives or a little mint as a garnish for something green and leafy instead.     

Feel like this recipe is totally lacking in garlic? You can fix that too, just add a few cloves of garlic to some of the lemon juice and grind it to a paste with a mortar and pestle.

Love tomatoes? I would advise adding them on top of individual servings rather than mixing into the salad so the tomatoes taste their best. This is a salad that can be refrigerated for days and tomatoes aren't going to enjoy chilling in the fridge.

Think of this recipe as a base which you can build upon however you wish based on your own tastes and things on hand.

Once I didn't have a lemon so I used a lime instead and it turned out great!

In a large bowl put the following tasty items:

One 15.5 oz can of Kidney beans - drained and rinsed

2 Celery ribs chopped

1 medium green pepper chopped

1/2 yellow or orange bell pepper chopped

2 carrots chopped

1 small bunch of green onions chopped and/or Shallot or small white onion

1/2 cup loose packed cilantro chopped

1 or 2 spicy peppers of choice such as Serrano, Jalapeno or Fresno chopped very fine

Mix together well in a small bowl or measuring cup:

1 heaping teaspoon Chaat Masala*

4-5 teaspoons white vinegar

The juice of one lemon

Salt to taste

Pour over everything in the large bowl and stir to combine

*Where to get the Chaat Masala

https://www.worldspice.com/blends/masala-chaat

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