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Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing


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Babycorn, Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing

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This delightful salad of colourful veggies in a delicious garlic and basil flavoured dressing, is a perfect addition to your meal!

With multi-textured ingredients like mushrooms, bean sprouts and cucumber, this salad is a delight to munch on.

The lemon and basil dressing contributes a lot of vitamin C to this recipe, thereby improving the absorption of iron from the bean sprouts.

The Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing is a wonderful way to top up on fibre, and keep blood sugar levels under leash.

Enjoy this salad immediately upon preparation, to relish its exciting textures and brilliant flavour.

Try other diabetic friendly salads like Cherry Tomato and Fenugreek Salad and Orange Tabbouleh .

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Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing recipe - How to make Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing

Preparation Time:    Cooking Time:    Total Time:     4Makes 4 servings
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Ingredients
3/4 cup bean sprouts
1/2 cup cucumber cubes (unpeeled)
1 tsp olive oil
2 tsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh basil leaves
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (khumbh)
1/2 cup chopped spring onions (whites and greens)
1/2 cup red capscium cubes
1/2 cup green capsicum cubes
2 tsp lemon juice
salt and to taste
Method
    Method
  1. Heat the olive oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the garlic and sauté on a medium flame for 30 seconds.
  2. Add the basil leaves and sauté on a medium flame for 30 seconds.
  3. Add the mushrooms, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
  4. Switch off the flame, transfer the mushroom mixture into a deep bowl, add the bean sprouts, cucumber, spring onions, red capsicum, green capsicum, lemon juice and salt and toss well.
  5. Serve immediately.

Accompaniments

Hakka Mushrooms, Veg Stir Fried Mushrooms 
Whole Wheat Vegetable Noodles, Hakka Noodles for Diabetics 

Nutrient values per serving
Energy 47 kcal
Protein 2.1 gm
Carbohydrates 6.5 gm
Fat 1.2 gm
Vitamin A 161.4 mcg
Vitamin C 50.6 mg
Calcium 18.5 mg
Iron 0.7 mg
Folic Acid 4.4 mcg
Fibre 2.3 gm

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Babycorn, Bean Sprouts and Cucumber Salad with Lemony Basil Dressing
5
Mruga D
 on 13 Sep 13 05:49 PM


Its crunchy, sweet and sour...yummy!!..Vegetables like Cucumber, Capsicum, Broccoli and Mushroom are low in glycemic and so helps to lower blood glucose levels.
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