Lentils for salad: a colorful and nutritious recipe

How about preparing a colorful lentil dish for salad? This recipe is a guaranteed success when you serve it and is also super nutritious.

For those who love eating salads and using lentils in their preparations, today's recipe is perfect!

Well, now have a recipe for lentils for salad full of color and flavor and will leave you well fed.

As it is a lighter meal, it prevents you from feeling heavy and sleepy after lunch. So let's cook?

Ingredients used in the lentil salad recipe:

• Lentils – 1 cup
• Medium carrot – 1 unit (thinly sliced diagonally)
• Medium red pepper – ½ unit (sliced into thin strips)
• Red onion – ½ unit (thinly sliced)
• Arugula – 1 handful of leaves (coarsely chopped)
• Parsley – 1 handful (finely chopped)
• Brazil nuts – 3 units (sliced)
• Garlic – 3 cloves (2 whole and 1 finely chopped)
• Fresh thyme – 1 twig
• Pomegranate – 1 handful of seeds
• Vinegar – 1/4 cup (any type)
• Olive oil – 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons for sautéing
• Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste

METHOD OF PREPARATION:

1. Start by cooking the lentils with lots of water and no salt. Cook for just 15 minutes in boiling water, or until al dente.
2. Then drain the lentils and place them in cold water so that the cooking process stops. Then drain well.
3. Then sauté over low heat, with the carrot, pepper, 2 cloves of garlic with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and stir occasionally, keeping the pan covered, until the vegetables are softened.
4. After seasoning using salt and pepper, add the onion to season with a good portion of salt and soak in the vinegar, until it softens and takes on another color.
5. Then drain the onion, rinsing it in water. Then add the olive oil, lemon and finely chopped garlic clove and mix using a fork.
6. To finish, mix all the ingredients once the carrot and pepper have cooled, adjust the salt and pepper and serve immediately.

After all, you certainly liked this proposal lentils for salad? So put this recipe on your plate and you will feel the difference.

How the Kitchen Manual likes to make what is good even better, we suggest serving this dish with a lemon citrus sauce and along with tasty grilled fish, everything is good!

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