Spiced carrot, date and sesame salad from A Change of Appetite: Where Healthy Meets Delicious by Diana Henry

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Accompaniments: Roopa's Indian scrambled eggs

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    Can substitute mint for coriander leaves.

  • Frenchfoodie on March 07, 2026

    Came together quickly, nice fresh and crunchy side dish.

  • consortiumlibrary on January 11, 2015

    Another winner from this excellent cookbook. Julienning the carrots was worth the effort; their crunch added to the salad. I used 1/2 tsp. Aleppo pepper instead of the "good pinch of chilli flakes" called for in the recipe. It wasn't too spicy and next time I'll probably up the Aleppo to 1 tsp.

  • lilham on November 14, 2014

    I served this with rice and a tomato based black eye bean dish. I omitted mustard seeds and herbs, and accidentally doubled the amount of lime juice. I also used sliced apricotS instead of dates. The result is still delicious if only a little sour. Mr lilham said he never thought a bit of garlic cooked in oil tasted so good. I was a bit worried at first this would be bland because there seems only to be lime juice in the dressing. But the tarka oil gives it a very nice deep and different flavour from my normal carrot salad. And it's very quick to make to boot.

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