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Provençal Lentil Salad

You can serve this tasty salad right away, but it gets better with time. Make it a day before you plan to serve it.

Courses: Salads, Vegetarian
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup 118mlLentils - picked over,
  Rinsed and drained
1/2   Onion - halved
1   Garlic clove - crushed
1   Bay leaf
1   Red bell pepper - seeded, and
  Finely diced
1/2   Red onion - chopped
2 tablespoons 30mlChopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 teaspoons 10mlOlive oil
2 teaspoons 10mlWhite wine vinegar
1 teaspoon 5mlChopped fresh sage
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlSalt
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlFreshly-ground black pepper

Recipe Instructions

Bring large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Add lentils, onion quarters, garlic and bay leaf. Cook until lentils are just tender, 20 to 30 minutes. Drain. Discard onion, garlic and bay leaf.

Transfer lentils to medium bowl and toss with bell pepper, red onion, parsley, oil, vinegar, sage, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper. Cool to room temperature before serving.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Per Serving: 128 Cal; 8g Prot; 3g Total Fat (0 Sat. Fat); 20g Carb.; 0mg Chol; 125mg Sod.; 9g Fiber.

Source:
Vegetarian Times, January 2002

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