so i am cooking dinner for few friends. i am going to make desi dishes like biryani, haleem, mutton karahi, saag etc. etc. So what salads can go with this menu other than good old kachumar or garden vegetable. I dont know why people will serve a russian salad or a pasta salad with full one desi menu.
may be a beans salad?
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
You could do a garbanzo bean/red onion/cucumber salad...toss it with some snipped dill, lemon juice, salt...yummy!!
Oe something with cold beets...
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
I always make this for either a dinner party or even for ourselves...lettuce,onions,cherry tomatoes,cucumbers,carrots and then I open up a can each of red beans,white beans,chick peas and corn (or use frozen corn if you have that) and mix all beans together and rinse them well.Drain and mix with the fresh veggies.You might not want to use all the beans because they will be a lot.The rest freeze perfectly and can be used for a later salad.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
I dunno, when it comes to a full desi menu, there's nothing like a fresh simple salad... you can't go wrong with cucumber, tomato, red onion, lettuce, lemon juice and coriander.
I hate the typical cheap salad served in desi restaurants.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
I like tabouleh salad a lot...why not serve that?
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
that's what I do when I am serving desi food.
Thinly sliced onions (round shape)
Achar (pickle)
Mix onions with achar, the masala will also be merged with onions.
A pretty casual and simple but everyone likes it.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
Well what ever you do but kindly dont do Russain salad - anything with sour cream or Mayonnaise kills the desi effect of the menu .. You know what i mean ..
If you have some roasted item on your menu - you can try yorkshire salad .. just be easy on malt vinegar..
Tabbouleh is good but I reckon it for Curry items only ! doesnt go well with rice dishes !
For rice dishes , if I had to do something else then a desi kachumor thingy , I would go for Greek salad and in this case I would go with lemon juice instead of vinegar ... Personal preference :)
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
Bean salad is an excellent choice
garbanzo & red kidney beans (you can add othee beans too)
finely chopped all of these ingredients -> red onion, cucumber, little bit of cilantro & few mint leafs, couple of deseeded green peppers (I sometime throw in 1 tomato too)
tossed with couple of table spoon of vinegar, red vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper
yum yum
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
Greek salad or even shirazi salad! Found a great recipe for shirazi salad yesterday,here you go:
Salad Shirazi ~ Persian Salad from City of Shiraz
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
You could do a middle eastern fatoush as well!
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
It looks similar to an Israeli salad:
Israeli Salad Recipe - Allrecipes.com
ther’es really not much difference between all of these 
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
JEW!!!
HARAAAAAM!!! no yahooodi salad for me 
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
True! 
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
Well what ever you do but kindly dont do Russain salad - anything with sour cream or Mayonnaise kills the desi effect of the menu .. You know what i mean ..
If you have some roasted item on your menu - you can try yorkshire salad .. just be easy on malt vinegar..
I know .....i dont know why people serve cream salads and pasta salads with desi stuff .....I usually serve roast on a bed of pickled bell peppers and onions along with roasted potatoes.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
I wish i had time to check gs earlier now i will have to go shop for things for this salad.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
This exactly how i make kachoomar salad.
Ps. sorry for three different posts but for some odd reason my multi quote aint working and thank you for all the wonderful suggestions.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
^Really? That's interesting. In my family, kachoomar refers to thinly sliced onions with hari mirchein...no lemon juice or anything. We sometimes add tomatoes, but I prefer just the pyaaz with the mirchein version.
Re: Salads to go with a desi menu
here in my family all like onion a lot, so i cut it with cucumber, lettuce leave, cabbage, sometimes add tomatoes. that salad used as daily routine.
Russian salad or pasta salad i hv made for a dawat for a change,
nw here hv read dffrent knds of salad mainly r ingredients and combination all r nice.
kachmor salad i made but i used the same ingredients above mentioned, like salad shrazi,.
nw need all that for a change. diffently try