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This raw carrot salad with grapefruit is a tart yet sweet shredded carrot salad made with juicy grapefruit. It is simple yet delicious and very healthy!
I have shared several family salad recipes on this site. My French Beet Salad, French Kale salad, and Potato Tuna salad are three of them. And this carrot grapefruit salad is a fourth.
I love the simplicity of this carrot salad. It’s made with two ingredients but it has so much flavor! It’s sweet from the carrots and tart yet sweet from the grapefruit. The grapefruit juice softens the carrots and seasons them with the most refreshing grapefruit flavor.
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Why this recipe works
- It makes for a wonderful appetizer.
- It’s great for grapefruit lovers. I have found though, non grapefruit lovers like this salad as well.
- It’s full of vitamins and antioxidants! The carrots have beta carotene and antioxidants. And the grapefruit is high in vitamin C and in antioxidants.
- It’s a great salad to make ahead of time.
Recipe ingredients
- grapefruit– I like to use ruby red grapefruit but any kind works here.
- carrots– using organic carrots is best here because you are eating so many of them.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to make this recipe
- Shred the carrots. You can use a cheese grater or an electric veggie shredder.
- Remove the meat from the grapefruit in a bowl, keeping all the grapefruit juice.
- Mix the shredded carrots and grapefruit meat and juice together really well. Press into the grapefruit to release the juices as you mix.
Expert Tips
- Use cold carrots and cold grapefruit. This dish tastes best cold.
- You need to shred the carrots yourself.
- You could technically buy shredded carrots, BUT they don’t taste as flavorful. When you shred them yourselves, you get the fresh carrot juices. Also fresh shredded carrots are softer, making them absorb the grapefruit juices better.
- A cheese grater works to shred them yourself, but it but it does take more work.
- I prefer using this electric shredder and it is amazing! It shreds carrots at lightening speed.
- Make sure to separate the grapefruit meat from the pith. The pith (white part connected to the peel) is very bitter.
- Refrigerate the salad for a few hours after making it, so the carrot and grapefruit flavors melt into each other.
How to serve this salad
- Serve it as soon as it is made.
- Serve it after refrigerating for a few hours.
- Add it to another salad. If you have a nice green salad with tomatoes on your plate. Add this carrot grapefruit salad to the plate to make it more interesting.
Other healthy salads you’ll love:
Raw Carrot Salad with Grapefruit
Carrot Grapefruit Salad recipe. A tart yet sweet salad made of carrots and grapefruit.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 regular sized grapefruits, ( or 1 large grapefruit)
- 4 cups shredded carrots, (this was 16 ounces of carrots for me)
Instructions
- Use a peeler to remove the skin off of your carrots.
- Shred the carrots. You can use a handheld grater, or an electric vegetable grater. Put the shredded carrots into a large bowl.
- Remove the peel off of the grapefruit. Remove the grapefruit meat from the rest of the grapefruit– leaving no skin or pith or anything.
- Cut the grapefruit into small pieces and mix into the shredded carrots. Mix the grapefruit and carrots together while pressing on the grapefruit meat to get the juices flowing.
- Eat this salad either right away or after being in the fridge for a few hours. Store this salad in the refrigerator. I personally like to refrigerate this salad for a few hours prior to eating.
Notes
- Use cold carrots and cold grapefruit. This dish tastes best cold.
- You need to shred the carrots yourself.
- You could technically buy shredded carrots, BUT they don’t taste as flavorful. When you shred them yourselves, you get the fresh carrot juices. Also fresh shredded carrots are softer, making them absorb the grapefruit juices better.
- A cheese grater works to shred them yourself, but it but it does take more work.
- I prefer using this electric shredder and it is amazing! It shreds carrots at lightening speed.
- Make sure to separate the grapefruit meat from the pith. The pith (white part connected to the peel) is very bitter.
- Refrigerate the salad for a few hours after making it, so the carrot and grapefruit flavors melt into each other.
Nutrition
Calories: 186kcalCarbohydrates: 45gProtein: 4gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gSodium: 177mgPotassium: 1078mgFiber: 10gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 44975IUVitamin C: 75mgCalcium: 127mgIron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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