Right now, the sun is playing a bit of hide and seek! Depending on the region in which we live, we had the chance to enjoy it throughout the Easter weekend or we haven’t seen it since last summer. Either way, it’s spring and therefore the return of salads! Potato salad, rice salad, Greek salad and of course lentil salad, all are slowly starting to return to restaurant menus. If the sunny days are slow to come to you, prepare yourself a good Lentil saladmaybe that will bring them in.
It may not be your habit to cook a lentil salad. For all those who recognize themselves in these words, that may be about to change thanks to the recipe imagined by the food influencer known on social networks under the pseudonym Lapetitechefmumu. With her dish that smells of spring, the cook shows us that lentil salad can be very tasty and above all very easy. Demonstration!
A simple lentil salad recipe that the whole family will enjoy
Children are often the hardest to convince. When pasta or fries aren’t on the dinner menu, it’s usually cringe soup. We don’t even dare imagine if we tell them that what we’re eating tonight is a lentil salad! Because of a memorable moment from the canteen, they will be very hostile to this idea of a dish, but with a little imagination, we can completely change their minds. Decorate it with feta, grilled peppers and a good vinaigrette and you will see smiles appear on their faces from the first bite. To know the secrets of this magical recipe which will make your children love lentilsjust follow the instructions from culinary content creator Lapetitechefmumu.
The list of ingredients for 1 person:
- 150 g cooked lentils
- 50 g marinated pepper
- 1 sweet potato
- 50g asparagus
- 1 onion
- 50g feta
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1/2 grapefruit
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- a few sprigs of parsley
The steps of the recipe:
- Start by preheating the oven to 190°C.
- Peel and dice the sweet potato, onion and asparagus. Cook’s tip: cut the white part of your green asparagus, this will remove their bitterness.
- Arrange the vegetables on a baking tray with olive oil and cook everything for 35 minutes at 190°C.
- Meanwhile, cook the lentils if they aren’t already.
- At the same time, make the vinaigrette. Put the grapefruit juice, honey, olive oil, parsley in a small pot then mix vigorously.
- In a salad bowl, add the cooked lentils, the peppers cut into strips, the sweet potato pieces, the onions and the asparagus.
- Crumble some feta on top then pour in the vinaigrette before mixing everything together.
Why soak lentils before cooking?
When you buy dried lentils, you must cook them before eating them. Several methods are possible, but the most common is cooking in water. Before cooking them for 25 minutes in a pan of salted water, it is advisable to soak them for a few hours before cooking them. Why should this be done? Not only will it reduce cooking timebecause the seeds will fill with water and therefore soften, but this also improves the digestibility of your lentils.