Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese Recipe

Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese is a healthy and fulfilling salad that can be relished hot or warm.

Smitha Kalluraya
Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese Recipe
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Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese is a healthy and fulfilling salad that can be relished hot or warm. Addition of goat cheese to this salad makes it very flavourful and unique from the salads. We can add a choice of veggies to this red lentil salad to make it more healthy. It is very easy to make yet very tasty. This salad is for the days when you want to eat something healthy yet tasty.

Serve Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese on its own for a healthy dinner or along with your light meal of Smoked Vegetarian Spanish Rice.

If you like this recipe, you can also try other Salad recipes such as

  1. Charred Corn and Radish Recipe
  2. Lentil Tabbouleh Recipe
  3. Farm Fresh Vegetarian Pasta Salad Recipe

Cuisine: Indian
Course: Side Dish
Diet: Vegetarian
Prep in

5 M

Cooks in

20 M

Total in

25 M

Makes:

4 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Masoor Dal (Whole) , dried
  • 1/2 cup Onion , chopped 
  • 1/4 cup Tomatoes , chopped 
  • 1/4 cup Spinach , chopped 
  • 1/4 cup Goat Cheese , crumbled
  • 1 Bay leaf (tej patta)
  • For the dressing
  • 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Kasundi mustard sauce
  • 2 cloves Garlic , roughly chopped
  • 2 teaspoon Black pepper powder , freshly crushed
  • Salt , to taste

How to make Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese Recipe

  1. To begin making the Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese  recipe, firstly take a bowl and add the lentils. Wash it twice or thrice and then strain the water.

  2. Take a pressure cooker and add the washed lentils. Add the required water and a bay leaf. Close the cooker and pressure cook it till the lentils become tender yet firm enough to retain shape. 

  3. While the lentil is getting cooked, chop the vegetables and keep them aside.

  4. The next step is to prepare the dressing. Take a bowl and add olive oil, vinegar, mustard paste, garlic, required salt and pepper powder.  Mix everything properly using a spoon.

  5. Once the lentils are cooked, strain the water and keep them aside to cool down a bit. 

  6. One the lentils cool down, combine everything in a bowl including lentils, vegetables and dressing except the goat cheese. Toss everything well.

  7. Just before serving, add the crumbled goat cheese. Enjoy warm red lentil salad with goat cheese.

  8. Serve Warm Red Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese on its own for a healthy dinner or along with your light meal of Smoked Vegetarian Spanish Rice.