Fruit chaat (Indian fruit salad) (raw vegan)

This chaat (Indian side-dish) is not necessarily a dessert, although it can very well work as one if you want it too. Just think of it as regular vegetable salad if you want it as a side to a warm curry, or as a spicier version of fruit salad if you want it as dessert (but put it in a fancy ice-cream cup in that case, to help with the dessert-thinking). :)
Anyway you want to have it, it's definitely an interesting ethnic food experiment. 
Recipe taken from Manjula. 


Last year: only another kind of bun in the oven and no cooking due to nausea :)





Ingredients (serves 3-4):

• 1 orange
• 1 apple
• 250 g strawberries
• 1 banana
• 10 cm of a large cucumber
• 1/2 of a green chili
• a few sprigs of cilantro (or curly leaf parsley)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon ginger juice
• 2 tablespoons raw sugar (or honey or agave syrup)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

Prepare the main fruits and vegetables and wash them:

Start chopping them up finely (only the oranges peeled) and putting the resulting cubes and bits into a salad bowl.

When they're all in the bowl season with finely chopped cilantro, finely chopped green chili pepper and a vinaigrette made of lemon and ginher juices, salt, pepper, sugar and cumin. Mix well and it's done.

Serve with your favorite stew or by itself. Dig in! :)