Originating in France, where it’s called carottes râpées, this French Carrot Salad is one of my new favourite salads. Having walked round many French supermarkets, I can easily picture cuboid tubs of this on the shelves in the chiller section, but I have no recollection of ever eating this in a restaurant out there – what a missed opportunity!

I started making this a few months ago when a pretty near empty fridge, a lack of desire to traipse to the shops, and the need for something healthy to serve to my family motivated me to google the words ‘carrot salad’. To be honest I didn’t hold out too much hope about being inspired, but boy was I wrong.

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