Salads are our family’s favorite item. Especially during festive time when I am busy, attending family’s need is also a must. Therefore, for quick and healthy cooking, salads are my choice. During Festive time, I avoid onion in salads. This salad I prepare often, as my family likes paneer, peas and corn very much. I tried to garnish it for Nithya – Pavithra’s Innovative In-Laws “Garnish the Dish” event.
To prepare this salad I took 15 minutes. However, for carving vegetables, it took 2 hours, as we are not masters in this art. Finally, I took my daughter’s help; she only did the vegetable carvings successfully. This salad contains corn to substitute carbohydrate, paneer and peas for protein substitute and tomato, carrot, cucumber for vegetable substitute.
Serves: 4
Cooking time: 15 minutes other than garnishing
Ingredients
- Fresh Paneer – 200 gm
- American sweet corn and frozen peas mixed – 1 cup
- Carrot – 1 no
- Capsicum – you need only a small piece for carving leaf
- Cucumber – 1 no
- Lemon – 1 no
- Tomato – 4 no
- Roasted cumin powder – ½ tea spoon
- Black pepper powder – ½ tea spoon
- Chat masala – ½ tea spoon (optional)
- Salt – as per your choice
- Cooking oil – ½ tea spoon
Method
Step 1
- Wash, peel cucumber and carrot; do carvings as shown; wash tomato and do the carvings like basket; do carving in capsicum like leaves; make a rose with tomato skin.
Step 2
- Boil corn and peas with little salt, drain and keep; cut paneer into small pieces; mix paneer pieces, boiled peas, corn, oil, salt, cumin powder, pepper powder, chat masala and lemon juice; toss and keep.
- Now fill tomato baskets with salad, arrange as you like and serve.
Tips
- Use sharp knife for carving.
- Do not attempt carving vegetables if you are in a hurry.
This post is part of the event “Garnish the Dish” organised by Nithya and Pavithra.
Update: October 15
Thanks to Innovative In-Laws for selecting and giving an award “Winner: In-Laws Choice” to this post.
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Wow. The decoration is stunning
Thanks for sending it to my event
Woww such a gorgeous dish, beautiful decoration yaar!
The decoration is stunning ,gorgeous and superb…
Hearty Congratulations buddy, for your winning at “Garnish the Dish” Event.. !! Your garnish looks simply amazing!! Thanks for the step by step presentation

You have a great site, Following you!!
Congratulations to you too Rohini. You have a great site too. Thank you.
this garnish decoration is awsome
sir can i learn all the points to make a great salad decoration
itz a great 1………..