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Recipe : *** Warm Lentil Salad

Warm Lentil Salad
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Course:
Main Dish

Practical information

  • Prep time
    15 min
  • Cooking
    45 min
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Pause
    4 h
  • Ready in
    5 h
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Categories

Healthy recipe
Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Recipe for:
big families
Category:
Vegetable recipes
Tags:
salad, warm

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 2 carrots, peeled
  • 1 leek thinly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon snipped chives
  • 1 onion
  • 1 clove
  • 1 bay leaf
  • pinch of dried thyme
  • 1 garlic clove, peeled
  • 6 tablespoons wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
  • salt and pepper
  • 400 g green lentils
  • 130 g celery chopped
  • 200 g smoked streaky bacon diced
  • 200 ml walnut oil

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Put the lentils in a bowl of water and soak for 3 to 4 hours.
  • 2
    Drain well and put in a large pan. Add one carrot, bay leaf, thyme, garlic together with the onion stuck with the clove. Cover with cold water and bring to the boil, then simmer for 30 to 35 mins.
  • 3
    Remove from the heat and drain. Remove the vegetables, bay leaf and garlic.
  • 4
    Slice the other carrot thinly and blanch in salted boiling water with the leek and celery drain well.
  • 5
    Whisk the vinaigrette ingredients (oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper) together.
  • 6
    Then fry the bacon in the oil until crisp.
  • 7
    Stir in the blanched vegetables and fried bacon gently into the lentils. Toss in the vinaigrette dressing and sprinkle with snipped chives. Serve warm.
  • Ready !