Moroccan Carrot Salad
Lightly cooked carrots tossed with cumin, garlic, paprika, lemon and olive oil: a bright, fragrant opener on the Moroccan table.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Level
- Easy
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The story of this dish
In Morocco a meal often begins not with a single salad but with an array of small cooked and raw salads set in the middle of the table. Cumin-spiced carrot salad is one of the most familiar, often sitting next to zaalouk and roasted pepper salad.
The balance of cumin, paprika, garlic and lemon is a signature of Moroccan cooking. Some families lean sweeter with orange blossom water or extra cinnamon, others sharper with hot chili.
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