Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, spring lentil salad (vegan). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
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! I picked a few up veggies at the Kendall Yards.
To get started with this 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan):
- Get 1 cup dry raw green lentils
- Prepare 2 medium sized tomatoes cubed
- Make ready 4-5 shallots chopped coarsely
- Make ready 1 large cucumber diced
- Get 1 apple (I used red apples)
- Prepare Few sprigs of mint
- Get 2 tbsps finely chopped mint
- Make ready 2 tsps freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Get Few walnuts (as per your liking)
- Make ready Dry chia seeds for garnish
- Get 2 medium sized potatoes par boiled and unpeeled
- Take 3 cups stock (any flavor)
- Get 2 tsps sweet paprika powder
- Take 2 garlic cloves
- Make ready Some olive oil
- Take Salt as per taste
- Get For the sauce
- Take 3 tbsps good quality Balsamic vinegar
- Take 1 tbsp honey
- Take 1 tbsp dijon mustard
No more limp lettuce, watery tomato and flavourless cucumber, vegan salads these days are hearty, creative and absolutely delicious. Satisfying enough to take centre stage and become your entire lunch or dinner in just one bowl. Warm lentil salad is a protein-packed alternative side dish to starchy potatoes or rice. For a pretty presentation, pack the salad in small ramekins, then invert onto plates and garnish with a cucumber slice and a halved cherry tomato.
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!
This vegan lentil salad keeps well in the fridge for a few days in a sealed container, so it actually lends itself pretty well to meal prep. This dish is hearty enough to be delicious for cold weather, but I also think the freshness lends itself to summer. Ah, summer how I miss you. Arugula Lentil Salad with easy to find ingredients. It's simple, tasty, vegan and really healthy!
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