Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, spring lentil salad (vegan). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Spring Lentil Salad (Vegan) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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 dry raw green lentils
- Make ready medium sized tomatoes cubed
- Make ready shallots chopped coarsely
- Make ready large cucumber diced
- Prepare apple (I used red apples)
- Take Few sprigs of mint
- Make ready finely chopped mint
- Prepare tsps freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Get Few walnuts (as per your liking)
- Prepare Dry chia seeds for garnish
- Prepare medium sized potatoes par boiled and unpeeled
- Make ready stock (any flavor)
- Get tsps sweet paprika powder
- Make ready garlic cloves
- Get Some olive oil
- Take Salt as per taste
- Prepare For the sauce
- Prepare good quality Balsamic vinegar
- Prepare honey
- Prepare dijon mustard
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!
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