Ingredients

Mayonnaise or cream cheese - 3 cups

Carrot, grated - 1 small one

Cucumber, chopped - ½

Green chilies, small, minced - 3

Apple, chopped - one small one

Green Capsicum, chopped {remove seeds too} - ¼

Red Capsicum - ¼

Tomato, chopped - 1 small

Celery - 1 stalk or coriander leaves - a few

Nuts, pine, cashew, almonds - 4 tbsps

panneer or tofu, chopped small - 1/4 cup {available in all Indian shops}

Cream cheese - 2 tbsps

Salt and pepper to taste

Sugar - ¼ tsp

Mustard powder - ¼ tsp

Gelatin - 3 tsps dissolved in ¼ cup of water

Decoration

Lettuce - few leaves shredded, cucumber - one small chopped

Tomato - 1 small chopped, carrot - ¼ small chopped

Preparation

Method:

  1. Soak gelatin in cold water. Dissolve it in hot water after 10 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, mix mayonnaise with all the vegetables, panneer/tofu, apple and nuts.
  3. Add the melted gelatin. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Beat the cream cheese till smooth, add salt pepper sugar and mustard and add this to the vegetable mix.
  5. Mix and pour into a ring mould {a mould with a hole in the centre}. Freeze ½ to one hour.
  6. Remove and keep in fridge.
  7. Un-mould and decorate by keeping the lettuce, cucumber, tomato and carrot around the molded salad.