Sweet red lentil and vegetable salad

A dish that starts with red lentils and finishes with vegetable broth.

Fancy

contains meat

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • red lentils
  • vegetable broth
  • eggplant
  • zucchini
  • cherry tomatos
  • olive oil
  • pepper
  • some flavouring sauce (soy sauce, sesame oil, )
  • (optional) sesame seeds
  • (optional) honey

Steps

  1. Cook the lentils firm to the bite according to package instructions, don't forget to add vegetable broth to the water.
  2. Cut eggplant and zucchini to big, but eatable slices. Marinate in olive oil, pepper and the flavouring sauce.
  3. Heat remaining marinade in a pan. When hot, add eggplant and zucchini and fry until golden brown.
  4. Add cherry tomatos.
  5. Add some sesame seeds, maybe some more oil or honey. Cover to capture heat.
  6. Drain lentils, season to your liking. Maybe add some honey to give it a sweet taste.
  7. Combine lentils and vegetables in a bowl. Cool down.
  8. Serve with some sprinkles of sesame and some honey on top.

Source

Chowdown (open-source recipes) — mit