Carrot salad with raisins and pomegranate

If you are bored of the various green salads, which often can be rather tasteless or predictable in taste, then this one here is for you! Before you buy the carrots try out a small piece. If it is sweet and aromatic then you should not miss them! If it is rather bitter or you can smell the soil you have two options: it is time to start going to another grocery store or choose another recipe in this blog!:-)) Joking aside, this is a delicious and quick salad with very simple ingredients. If you leave it in the fridge all night the next day the flavours will all nicely come together ending with a lightly pickled flavour

Slightly adapted from a recipe of Vassilis Kallides,
a prominent Head Cook and food author
from "Cook Book" magazine of "ETHNOS" newspaper

Ingredients (for 4 people):
500gr. carrots, washed and peeled
1 bunch of rocket salad leaves
1 yellow onion, cut into thin rings (I used red onion)
½ tea-cup of black raisins
½ tea-cup of pomegranate arils
2 lemons, the juice
8 tbsp of olive oil
1 tbsp of salt

Method:
Coarsely grate the carrots in a large bowl.

Add the pomegranate and the raisins and pour over with the lemon juice.

Leave the salad in the fridge for at least 1 hour or until you are ready to serve.

In a spacious serving dish spread the rocket leaves and on top place the carrot salad.

Sprinkle with the salt, scatter the onion rings and drizzle on top with the olive oil.