more delicious dressings

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sometimes i feel like people don't put enough effort into salad dressings (and salads in general) buying the dreadful ready made kind from the store. i just believe that if you just use a little brain power you can save so much more money and have tastier alternatives.

a simple salad i like to make is just a cherry tomato, red onion and cucumber salad as a side for fish. for the dressing: olive oil, fresh coriander, a squeeze of lime and white sugar.

as a south african indian, the first sort of salad i ever ate was a grated carrot salad. as we got more sophisticated, lettuce and cucumber were added, but the original one was such sliced onion, grated carrot and finely chopped green chilli. with salt and a spash of vinegar, this was the salad we ate with curries, breyanis and bunny chow (click here for my post on this).

another salad we're used to eating with indian food is a sour milk salad. made from fermented milk originally, we now just use plain yoghurt which is mixed together with fried (almost caramelised) onion, sometimes a bit of tumeric powder and cucumber. this adds a cool relief when eating a really hot curry and is a MUST with south african breyanis.

i am now tired and hungry and can get the smell of freshly cooked chicken curry which is making it hard for me to concentrate on completing this post so more on this later (ha!)

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