A warm salad for a cold chilly day!

Name: A warm salad for a cold chilly day!
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Horse Gram Sprouted / Kulith; 1 carrot medium size chopped medium; 1 onion medium size chopped; 7 - 8 half cherry tomatoes cut in; half 2 capsicum diced; 2 Baby corns chopped; 2 tsps Olive oil; Salt as per taste; Pepper as per taste; 1 tsp Chaat Masala

Gauri Shirke @cook_7836379

Mantri Tranquil, Kanakpura, Bangalore

Its chilly to the bone here and a State Holiday, with the better at half home, I wanted to cook something that he enjoys eating and is warm n comforting to beat the cold!
We decide to have a warm salad and toast for breakfast, some khichadi with loads of ghee for lunch, with papad, achaar and my groundnut chutney!
Happy with this quick decision I ran to the kitchen to make breakfast, my stomach was already grumbling, the cold weather makes me very very hungry!
My fridge was packed with fresh ingredients, so it was just a matter of just chopping, sauteing for a few minutes to make this salad. Horse gram was already sprouted, had previously planned to make a 'Kulith Saar' but decided against it and thought of trying something new.
Like every day I switched on the TV to a music channel and started my cooking on the beat of the music.... just like everyday!
Somewhere along the line I forgot that better half is at home, I am so used to having breakfast alone without anyone hovering around me that when hubby kept peeping in the kitchen trying to figure out whats happening, wondering when he will get food on plate, how much longer it was going to take etc etc, I really wanted to get all the cooking over with - fast!!
Luckily the dish was simple and was polished off in minutes; this salad turned out to be light and very flavour full, my content better half then switched off the music and flipped through his favourite channels, leaving me to my kitchen experiments!

Gauri Shirke @cook_7836379

Mantri Tranquil, Kanakpura, Bangalore

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Ingredients

1 cupHorse Gram Sprouted / Kulith
1carrot medium size chopped medium
1onion medium size chopped
7 - 8 halfcherry tomatoes cut in
half 2capsicum diced
2Baby corns chopped
2 tspsOlive oil
Salt as per taste
Pepper as per taste
1 tspChaat Masala

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Steps

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To sprout the Horse gram (Kulith):
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Wash the horse gram thoroughly under water, soak 1 cup horse gram in 1½ cup water over night.
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Next morning drain the remaining water (if any) and was the horse gram thoroughly under running water.
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Wrap the washed horse gram in a clean cotton /muslin cloth and leave to sprout, keep splashing water to the cotton / muslin cloth. This will help to retain the moisture and in sprouting. Keep them wrapped for one day and use them the next day!
5

Wash the sprouted the horse gram under running water, pressure cook them for 5 minutes on ‘medium’ flame / one whistle just to slightly cook them. I don’t like the raw taste of sprouts’ in my salads.
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Take a non-stick pan; add 2 tsp of olive oil, once it’s hot add the chopped onions, carrots and sauté for 1 minute.
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Then add the baby corn, capsicum, cherry tomatoes and sauté again for a min, add the steamed horse gram and mix everything till well mixed.
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Adjust the seasoning as per taste, add chaat masala (optional) and serve warm.