Fresh Vegetable Salad in Light Marinade, Simple and Delicious

A simple vegetable salad where briefly heating onion and carrot brings out their natural sweetness. Peppers and cucumber are added raw, and everything is marinated in a light dressing. The salad works both as a side dish and as a standalone meal.

Spring and summer are the seasons when fresh vegetables are at their best and simple salads become indispensable on the table. One such recipe combines onion, carrot, pepper and cucumber into a unified whole, bound together by a light marinade.

Onion and carrot go through a brief heating, which brings out their natural sweetness but does not soften them, the texture remains crisp and pleasant. Pepper and cucumber are added raw, preserving freshness and juiciness.

All the components then have time to infuse with flavour in the marinade, which brings the different tastes into harmonious unity. The result is a salad that works as a side dish for meat or fish, but also simply on a sandwich or as a light meal on its own.