Lentil Salad with Mint, Beetroot & Feta
Make on Fresco
The perfect salad for any time of year. I seriously love this flavour combo and I am pretty sure you will too. Conveniently Vegetarian indeed.
The little jewels of roasted beetroot in this salad are such a sweet surprise, you will just love it. There are so many combinations of beetroot with mint and feta, I think I may have at least three on tenina.com alone, but this recipe is brand new and totally addictive. Enjoy.
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Need
- 150 Grams French lentils
- Water for steaming
- 1 large beetroot or 2 small
- balsamic vinegar for drizzling
- 2 pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 80 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 Teaspoon seeded mustard
- 50 Grams red wine vinegar
- 50 Grams rice wine vinegar
- Handfuls fresh mint leaves
- 200 Grams grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 red or yellow capsicum, diced
- 2 spring onions, sliced on the angle
- 100 Grams feta cheese, crumbled
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with paper.
- 2
Place lentils into steamer basket, insert into Thermomix bowl and pour water over to the level of the base of the basket.
- 3
Steam 35 min/100°C/speed 3.5.
- 4
Remove lentils and cool. Drain Thermomix bowl.
- 5
Prepare beetroot by peeling and dicing into 1 cm cubes. Place onto prepared tray and drizzle with balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with 1 pinch salt and drizzle with the extra EVOO. Roast 25 minutes, remove and cool. (If the beetroot is not cooked, add cooking time, or cut the pieces smaller next time!)
- 6
Place salt, EVOO, garlic, mustard, and both remaining vinegars into Thermomix bowl and blend 10 sec/speed 10 to make a dressing.
- 7
Combine all remaining ingredients except feta in serving bowl and toss gently. Add feta, and drizzle with dressing just prior to serving.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
