Ingredients for Brown lentil veggies salad 🥗
- 1/2 cup whole brown lentil/it is also called red lentil– soaked overnight or for 8 hrs
- 1/2 cup water 💦
- 1/2 deseeded cucumber 🥒cut into cubes
- 1 grated carrot 🥕
- 1 deseeded tomato cut into cubes
- 1 tbsp finely chopped fennel leaves 🌿
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Salt to taste 🧂
- 1/4 cup red cabbage shredded
- 1 green capsicum 🫑 cut into cubes
- 2 small size onion slices 🧅
- For Dressing:
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice 🍋
- 1-2 finely chopped green chillies
- 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil
Cooking Instructions for making Brown lentil veggies salad 🥗
Clean,wash and soak whole brown lentil for overnight or 8 hrs,in a deep pan add 1/2 cup water, soaked whole brown lentil, cover and boil for 8 mins or till all the water 💦 has been evaporated, remove from the heat, keep aside, let it cool completely. Heat oil, add cumin seeds when start to crackle, add boiled whole brown lentil, saute for 3-4 mins, remove from the heat, let it cool down completely.
Once it’s cooled, transfer the sauted whole brown lentil into deep bowl 🥣, add all the ingredients (cucumber cubed 🥒, grated 🥕 carrot, tomato cubed🍅, finely chopped fennel leaves 🌿, shredded red cabbage, onion slices🧅, green capsicum 🫑) and mix well, keep aside.
For dressing: in a small bowl 🥣, add olive oil, lemon juice 🍋, finely chopped green chillies, freshly ground black pepper & salt to taste 🧂 mix well, pour the prepared dressing over the salad 🥗 and mix gently, serve immediately.
Note: if you don’t want to saute the lentil, then I kindly recommended that you should use boiled whole lentil straight a way.
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