Step-by-Step Guide to Make Quick Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, spring lentil salad (vegan). It is one of my favorites. 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! I picked a few up veggies at the Kendall Yards. Warm Lentil Salad The salad has so many great textures and flavors from all of the different vegetables and the lentils make it really hearty.

Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have spring lentil salad (vegan) using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan):

1. Prepare 1 cup dry raw green lentils
2. Prepare 2 medium sized tomatoes cubed
3. Make ready 4-5 shallots chopped coarsely
4. Get 1 large cucumber diced
5. Take 1 apple (I used red apples)
6. Take Few sprigs of mint
7. Take 2 tbsps finely chopped mint
8. Prepare 2 tsps freshly squeezed lemon juice
9. Make ready Few walnuts (as per your liking)
10. Take Dry chia seeds for garnish
11. Get 2 medium sized potatoes par boiled and unpeeled
12. Get 3 cups stock (any flavor)
13. Prepare 2 tsps sweet paprika powder
14. Prepare 2 garlic cloves
15. Take Some olive oil
16. Make ready Salt as per taste
17. Get For the sauce
18. Make ready 3 tbsps good quality Balsamic vinegar
19. Prepare 1 tbsp honey
20. Take 1 tbsp dijon mustard

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Steps to make Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan):

1. Preheat the oven to 250°C
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients together and voila!
8. 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!

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