Lentil Salad Recipe with Chef Tips
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I just show you my Lentil Salad Recipe.
You can serve this salad with lentils cold or lukewarm, I leave that to you.
Today I have freshly cooked beetroot, orange and lamb’s lettuce with walnuts as an addition to the lentils.
The salad tastes surprisingly refreshing and will surely please you.The preparation I show you below with many step by step photos. Good luck!
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1. Recipe Lentil Salad
Below are the step-by-step instructions with many photos.
If you have any questions please use the comment function!
Lentil salad with beetroot, lamb’s lettuce, oranges and walnuts
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple instructions for preparing lentil salad with beet and oranges.
Ingredients
| Boil beetroot and prepare salad | ||
| 500 | g | beetroot |
| 1 | tsp | Salt |
| Marinade for beetroot | ||
| 1-2 | tsp | Caraway |
| 40 | ml | white wine vinegar |
| 1/4 | tsp | Salt |
| 8 | Prisen | Pepper |
| 1/2 | tsp | brown sugar |
| 70 | ml | Sunflower oil (or olive oil) |
| lentils | ||
| 1 | cups | lentils |
| 1 | pc | Soup vegetables |
| 1 | pc | onion |
| 1 | tsp | butter |
| 1 | pc | bay |
| 2 | cups | Vegetable broth |
| 1 | tsp | brown sugar |
| 4 | pinches | Salt |
| 4 | pinches | black pepper |
| 1 | tsp | curry |
| 2 | tbsp | balsamico |
| Lamb’s lettuce and dressing + oranges + decoration | ||
| 100 | g | lamb’s lettuce |
| 2 | pc | Orangen |
| 1 | tbsp | white wine vinegar |
| 1 | tsp | Dijon mustard |
| 4 | pinches | Salt |
| 4 | pinches | black pepper |
| 1-2 | tsp | honey |
| 80 | ml | Olive oil |
| 2 | pc | Orangen (for fillets or orange pieces) |
| 4-6 | pc | walnut kernels |
Equipment
Instruction
Beetroot preparation
Prepare beet
Cook the beetroot in salted water until soft.
You can use a pressure pot, then it goes faster.
Peel beet
Pour off the beetroot and peel under running cold water.
Then let cool and cut out unattractive places.
Beet cut
Cut the turnips into thin slices, you can also use a slicer.
Beet sliced
Place the beet slices in a bowl.
Prepare caraway
Toast the caraway in a mortar so that the aroma can develop better.
Seasoning
Season the beet slices with caraway, salt, sugar, vinegar and oil.
Marinate
Refine beetroot salad with pepper, mix well and leave to stand for 15 minutes.
Beet ready
Season beetroot salad to taste, arrange and serve.
Enjoy your meal!
Prepare lentils
Putting on lentils
Sweat the lentils with diced vegetables and onions in a saucepan.
Add the bay leaf, vegetable stock, sugar, salt, pepper and curry and cook the lentils.
Finish lenses
If necessary, add water, cook the lentils until al dente, then remove the bay leaf and season with balsamic vinegar lukewarm.
Lamb’s lettuce, dressing, oranges, decoration
Wash lettuce
Cut off the roots from the lamb’s lettuce.
Gently weigh lamb’s lettuce in cold water, dry and drain on kitchen paper.
Prepare dressing
Squeeze two oranges and mix with vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper and honey.
Let the olive oil run in slowly and stir to a creamy dressing.
Prepare walnuts
Squeeze the walnuts into the mortar to decorate.
Arrange and Serve
Either filet or peel and chop the oranges.
Arrange the lentils, add the beetroot, marinate the lamb’s lettuce and add it neatly, add the orange pieces and serve decorated with walnuts.
YOU could write me a comment now, why this lens salad should be simple… after all there are more than 20 ingredients in use here…
For clarification:
I prepare this lentil salad mostly when I have already prepared beetroot salad the day before.
I almost always have the dressing for the lamb’s lettuce ready in the fridge because it tastes so delicious.
You could also use pre-cooked beetroot, then please buy the cooked, non-marinated ones, which taste better than the beetroot from the glass.
Some more tips for cooking beetroot:
The smaller the beets, the shorter the cooking time.
The piercing of the beets is considered a faux pas, I have already halved large beets to reduce the cooking time.
Wash the turnips well before cooking, only clean turnips come into your pot! 🙂
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
2. Nutritional Values
3. How to prepare Lentil Salad
Here is the overview of the preparation. Also note my hints at the end of the recipe…
- Cook the turnips in salt water until soft. Use a pressure pot, then it goes faster.
- Then transfer the turnips to the washbasin and peel with cold water.
- Peeling is easy… the skin just peels off.
- Let the turnips cool lukewarm, then cut into fine slices and place in a bowl.
- Add white wine vinegar, salt, sugar, pepper, oil and freshly ground caraway seeds and marinate.
- At the same time prepare the lentils with vegetable cubes and onion cubes and cook in vegetable stock until soft.
- I always add some curry to the lentils, we know this from the Indian lentil salad. Curry supports the taste of the lentils.
- Clean, wash and prepare lamb’s lettuce.
- Prepare orange fillets or peel orange and cut into pieces.
- Prepare a salad dressing with orange juice, vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper.
- Marinate the lentils with balsamic vinegar and serve.
- Add beetroot slices, marinate lamb’s lettuce and add.
I have already written elsewhere about the health effects of beetroot!
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