Jelled Orange Carrot Salad

This salad had always been a favorite salad of mine while growing up. I have missed it. So, I was very happy when this worked out so well.

Serving Size: 4

Ingredients:

• 2 cups orange juice
• 2 cups carrots, peeled and grated
• 3 tablespoons orange marmelade, ginger marmelade or agave syrup
• 10 grams agar agar (about 2 teaspoons)
• soyanaise as a garnish

Directions:

1. Spray a shallow baking dish or molds with oil.
2. Peel and grate the carrots.
3. Pour the orange juice into a medium saucepan.
4. Add the sweetener and stir well to mix.
5. Add the agar agar ad gain stir well to mix.
6. Bring the orange juice mixture to a boil, stirring.
7. Let it boil for 2 minutes then turn off the heat, and remove the pan fro the burner.
8. I allowed it to cool a bit, as I did not want to cook the carrots.
9. After 1-2 minutes, I added the carrots and stirred well to mix.
10. Pour the mixture into the molds or baking dish then refrigerate.
11. I was very happy that after 2-3 hours the salad was totally jelled.
12. We served the salad, cut in squares, on a small bed of lettuce with a dollop of soyanaise on top, and a small lemon balm leaf.
13. It’s important to have some oil (as is in the soyanaise) so that the vitamin A of the carrots is freed for digestion.

Notes:

We used a product called Agartine by Ruf. Which was individual prepackaged amounts of 10 grams of agar agar.