Mad hankering for carrot salad

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#1

Hi all,

I’m having a mad hankering for a carrot salad I used to make. I see carrots are basically 10g carbs per hundred and 2.8g of fiber. Which puts them at net carb 7.2%, which is still too high for my satisfaction.

I usually shred the carrot and notice there’s a LOT of juice so what I’m wondering if anyone knows of a way to determine how much sugar is in that juice? 'cos I could throw out the juice and still enjoy a lower carb (say <5%) salad possibly.

Thoughts? Does anyone regularly do anything similar?

p.s. RECIPE:
2 shredded carrots, add
olive oil
lemon juice
tamari nuts (walnuts or other suitably low carb… pecans etc)
or simply any salted nuts will do

(Laurie) #2

Dunno about the juice.

You could try a salad of grated daikon? Daikon has 4.1 total carbs - 1.6 g fiber = 2.5 net carbs per 100 g. If you want it to taste sweeter (more like carrot), maybe add a bit of stevia.

#3

Not sure how much the carrot juice is worth in terms of carbs I’m afraid but I make a carrot salad that is about 50% grated carrot & 50% pizza cheese blend - that would reduce the carbs. I add quite a lot of chopped continental parsley & dress it with olive oil/red wine vinegar. It keeps well in the fridge for a couple of days - actually it’s better if you let it sit in the fridge for at least 8 hours before serving.

#4

Thanks for your replies. I tried the carrot with cheese salad idea. Good solution, though not quite what I’m after. I’ll try daikon (if I can any).