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Curry noodle salad with mayonnaise

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Salad, Snack
Servings: 3 people
Author: Aloorecipes

Ingredients

  • 3 Noodles small packages
  • 1 Potato, chopped medium
  • 1 Carrots, chopped medium
  • ½ cup Cauliflower
  • ½ cup Chickpeas, baked
  • ½ cup Can corn
  • ½ cup Can peas
  • 2 leaves Purple cabbage
  • 1 Onion medium
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil or sesame oil optional

Sauce ingredients:

  • 3 tbsp Mayonnaise
  • 3 tbsp Yogurt
  • 1 tbsp Lemon juice
  • tbsp Curry powder
  • ½ tsp Oregano powder
  • ½ tsp Thyme powder
  • Salt as needed

Instructions

  • Cook the carrots, potatoes and cauliflowers: finely chop the carrots and potatoes. Chop the cauliflowers too. Put the carrots, potatoes and cauliflowers in a pot with water on heat. Let them cook for about 10 minutes so they get soft. You can also add some cooked chickpeas .I recommend reading the post about cooking chickpeas stovetop.
    Cook the carrots potatoes cauliflowers and chickpeas
  • Prepare the canned corn and pea.
  • chop the onions and purple cabbage into small pieces.
  • Prepare the curry sauce: mix mayonnaise, yogurt, lemon juice, curry powder, oregano, thyme, salt and pepper together. Stir in the yogurt and mayo with a spoon until smooth before mixing them with the other ingredients.
    Curry sauce
  • Cook the noodles: put a pot of water on heat and then prepare the noodles according to the instructions written on them. I cook the noodles for about 5 to 10 minutes. If there’s a noodle spice in the package, add that too. After cooking, pour them in a colander.
    Cook the noodles
  • Mix all the ingredients: add all the ingredients to the noodles and then pour the sauce. You can add a little olive oil or sesame oil too. Stir well.
    After mixing everything together you can eat the salad right after or you can put it in room temperature or the fridge for the ingredients to taste better.
    Mix all the ingredients

Notes

Extra tips about curry noodle salad with mayonnaise

As I said earlier, if you didn’t have access to the ingredients for this curry noodle salad with mayonnaise, you can alternate any other ingredients. For example, if you don’t have purple cabbage at home, you can chop up some lettuce or even fresh aromatic herbs like parsley and use them.
The following ingredients can be good alternatives to the ingredients of this recipe:
  • Cooked chicken fillet
  • Bologna (baloney)
  • Pickled cucumber
  • Cooked green peas
  • Fresh parsley, coriander or spinach
Curry powder is a mixture of following spices, so there’s no need to add these separately:
  • Turmeric
  • Black pepper
  • Cumin
  • Ginger
  • Cinnamon
  • Cardamom
  • Cloves and…
If you like spicy food you can add more pepper separately.