Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, spring lentil salad (vegan). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A delicious, healthy, Greek-inspired lentil salad recipe, loaded up with spring veggies, lemon and fresh mint served over optional yogurt sauce. The farmers market is overflowing with the most beautiful spring produce! Warm lentil salad is a protein-packed alternative side dish to starchy potatoes or rice.
Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spring lentil salad (vegan) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan):
- Take 1 cup dry raw green lentils
- Get 2 medium sized tomatoes cubed
- Take 4-5 shallots chopped coarsely
- Prepare 1 large cucumber diced
- Prepare 1 apple (I used red apples)
- Get Few sprigs of mint
- Make ready 2 tbsps finely chopped mint
- Take 2 tsps freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Make ready Few walnuts (as per your liking)
- Take Dry chia seeds for garnish
- Take 2 medium sized potatoes par boiled and unpeeled
- Prepare 3 cups stock (any flavor)
- Prepare 2 tsps sweet paprika powder
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves
- Prepare Some olive oil
- Take Salt as per taste
- Make ready For the sauce
- Get 3 tbsps good quality Balsamic vinegar
- Get 1 tbsp honey
- Make ready 1 tbsp dijon mustard
Living in France made me discover a brand new. Depending on your lentils, you would have to keep a watch. The goal is to cook the lentils al dente. Here is how you achieve it.
Instructions to make Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan):
- Preheat the oven to 250°C
- While the oven is being preheated, add lentils and stock of your choice on a casserole and cook it for at least 13 mins. Depending on your lentils, you would have to keep a watch. The goal is to cook the lentils al dente. Some lentils like whole moong might take as long as 20 mins until al dente.
- Meanwhile, in an oven tray, place your unpeeled parboiled potatoes. Sprinkle some salt and paprika. Add roughly crushed garlic, a dash of olive oil and give it a nice mix with your hands. Put the potatoes in the oven and let them bake for at least 15 mins.
- While the potatoes are getting baked, you can work on the other ingredients. Take the cubed apples and sprinkle some lemon juice on them and keep them aside in the fridge for at least 5 mins.
- Once the lentils are cooked, strain out the water and leave them out to cool. Once they are nicely cooked down and dried up, throw in all the chopped vegetables and apples. Give it a nice gentle toss and keep your salad bowl in the fridge.
- Take out the potatoes from the oven. Squish them lightly so that they break a little. Throw in a dash of balsamic vinegar and put them back for another 15 mins. You want to cook them until they become crunchy and golden.
- For the sauce, mix all the ingredients together and voila!
- Once your potatoes are baked. It's time to start plating! Toss your salad in a bowl, garnish with chia seeds and nuts. Add the baked potatoes and some mint leaves. Sprinkle some sauce and you won't regret it!
Depending on your lentils, you would have to keep a watch. The goal is to cook the lentils al dente. Easy Spring Lentil Salad The baby's sleeping, the baby's sleeping: quick, write about lentils! The truth is what I really want to write about is the soft spring rain (not even sure we can call it that as it feels more like a mist) and the pillowy cherry blossoms gracing what feels like every street in Seattle. This simple Spring Lentil and Wild Rice Salad is a hearty and balanced grain salad perfect for warm evenings and packing up for lunches.
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