Middle Eastern carrot salad!

Shredded carrots and golden raisins dressed with honey, lemon and orange blossom water.

This is one of those dishes.

Orange Blossom Carrot Salad

Elise Bauer

you could get orange blossom or orange flower water at a Mediterranean market.

Whole Foods also carries it.

Evie adapted this recipe from one by Claudia Roden inThe New Book of Middle Eastern Food.

Orange Blossom Carrot Salad

Elise Bauer

Chill in refrigerator several hours or overnight.

Serve garnished with slivers of mint leaves.