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Lentil salad with beetroot, apple and grilled salmon

Frank Camorra
Frank Camorra

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This healthy and filling salad won't leave you needing a post-lunch snooze.
This healthy and filling salad won't leave you needing a post-lunch snooze.Marina Oliphant

Warm salads are an interesting and healthy way to eat during the cold months, using tasty seasonal vegetables. For this lentil salad, I like to use French baby lentils because they keep their shape well. Once they are cooked, drain them and dress them in a little sherry vinegar while still warm to bring out their flavour.

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Ingredients

  • 4 medium beetroot

  • 1 tsp thyme, chopped

  • 230ml olive oil plus a little for frying and drizzling

  • 1/2 brown onion, finely diced

  • 1 carrot, diced small

  • 1 celery stick, diced small

  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped

  • 2 bay leaves

  • 300g French green lentils

  • 30ml sherry vinegar

  • 8 x 120g salmon fillet pieces, skin on

  • 10 mint leaves, chopped

  • 1 cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped

  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard

  • 40ml lemon juice

  • 2 Granny Smith apples

  • 1 lemon, cut in half

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180C. Wrap each beetroot in foil and roast for an hour until soft in the centre. When cool enough to handle, cut into 1-centimetre dice and mix with thyme and 100 millilitres olive oil.

    Sweat onion, carrot, celery, garlic and bay leaves in a little olive oil until soft.

    Add lentils, cover with cold water then bring to a simmer and cook until soft, but not mushy. Drain lentils and place in a bowl, add sherry vinegar and 30 millilitres olive oil and toss well.

    Heat grill pan and start cooking the salmon skin side down to crisp it. After about 10 minutes, turn salmon and cook for about 5 minutes then leave in a warm place until needed.

    Mix lentils, beetroot, mint and parsley. Mix mustard, lemon juice and remaining 100 millilitres olive oil for the dressing. Cut apples into matchsticks.

    Add dressing to lentil salad, divide between eight plates, top with some apple sticks and finish with a piece of salmon. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.

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Frank CamorraFrank Camorra is chef and co-owner of MoVida Sydney and Melbourne's MoVida Bar De Tapas.

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