Black Lentil Salad
This light black lentil whole meal salad is perfect for a hot summer day.
Calories per serving: 313kcal
Ingredients
For the Lentils
- 1 cup black lentils
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon *vegetable base
- 2 garlic cloves, broken
- 2 quarts water
For the Salad
- ½ red onion, chopped
- ¼ cup pimentos, diced
- 1 can corn
- 1 small can sliced black olives
- 2 tablespoons Girard's Champagne dressing
Instructions
- Mise en place
- Put the lentils, vegetable base, bay leaf and broken up pieces of garlic in the pressure cooker. Cook on high for 8 minutes and use the quick release. Drain the lentils and put them in the refrigerator.
- Chop the onion and put it and the rest of the ingredients in the refrigerator with the lentils.to cool, about an hour and a half or so.
- Combine the lentils, pimentos, corn, olives, red onion and toss with the salad dressing. Taste it and adjust the seasonings to what you like.
Notes
This is a perfect salad to add other leftover vegetables or other small vegetables.
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