Simple Carrot Salad Recipe

Simple Carrot Salad Recipe – The Best Easy and Creamy 3 Ingredient Healthy Grated Carrot Salad with the video tutorial.

This simple carrot salad is creamy, cheesy and so easy to prepare. There are only 3 ingredients in the basic recipe, and then loads of variations, as you’ll see, so you can tailor the salad to your tastes. (And budget!)

The bright orange salad makes an easy side dish that’s always a welcome addition to any picnic, lunch box or dinner table any time of the year.

How To Make A Carrot Salad

To start with, you can use any carrots you like, from regular sized carrots to small, sweet carrots or even rainbow carrots, then you can choose whether to keep your carrots unpeeled or peel them. You can save any carrot peel to use in soups or stocks if you don’t want to waste anything.

Then, you can choose to chop, dice or grate your carrots. Since I’m mixing in grated cheese, I thought I’d stick with the same texture and go for grated carrots.

Use the large holes of your box grater (here are box graters on Amazon), a julienne peeler or a food processor to grate raw carrots until you have enough to fill your salad bowl or dish.

For the creamy dressing, I just opted for sour cream because I feel that it’s the perfect addition of creaminess and tangy flavor to balance with the crunchy carrots. You could swap the sour cream for mayo or Greek yogurt if you’d prefer. Or do a mix of a couple of creamy ingredients.

For the best way to create a vegan recipe, simply use a vegan mayo, dairy free sour cream or yogurt alternative instead.

Add as much sour cream as you’d like and give it a good toss through. Then, for the cheese, add a quarter of a cup at a time, give it a mix and then keep adding more until you’re happy with the amount of cheese in your salad.

Pop the salad into the fridge for a few hours to give the flavors time to mingle and develop. Then, enjoy the great side dish as an easy healthy eating option!

Delicious Salad Toppings Ideas

Here are some ideas for simple ingredients that you can add into your carrot slaw, if you want to go beyond the 3 ingredients in the easy recipe:

Sea Salt, Black Pepper & any other seasoning
Chopped fresh parsley
Cooked chopped onion or green onions
Cooked chopped garlic
Cooked pasta
Sultanas or Raisins
Chopped fresh pineapple
Apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
Hard boiled eggs – chopped
Feta
Goats Cheese
Lemon zest or tangy lemon juice, lime juice or orange juice
Dijon Mustard
Nuts – pine nuts, walnuts, pecan nuts

Easy Carrot Salad Recipe

3-4 Raw Carrots
1/4 to 1/2 Cup Sour Cream
1/4 to 1/2 Cup Grated Cheese

Peel the carrots and grate them into a salad bowl or dish.
Add 1/4 Cup of sour cream to the shredded carrots and stir through, add the other quarter of a cup, or more, until creamy to your liking.
Add the cheese, a quarter of a cup at a time, mixing after each addition until the salad has as much cheese as you’d like.
Enjoy straight away or move the salad to the fridge for a few hours to allow the flavors to develop, and then enjoy, storing any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge.