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chicory salad with chopped vegetables and parsley and lentils in the middle

Easy chicory and lentil salad

Fresh, tasty and filling salad that takes only couple of minutes to make.
Recommended:
when the chemo treatments have ended
Please note that this salad is not recommended during your chemo treatment. Its very aromatic ingredients may upset your stomach, and also because all the vegetables are raw.
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 5 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Servings 1 po

Ingredients
  

  • 1 red chicory
  • 1 carrot, peeled, preferably organic
  • 1 celery stalk, preferably organic
  • half of small red onion
  • small bunch of flat-leaf parsley
  • 1/4 cup green lentils, soaked for at least 3 hours
  • 2 small bay leaves
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
  • a pinch of salt

Instructions
 

  • Wash your vegetables thoroughly.
    Cook lentils in boiling water, flavoured with 2 bay leaves, until soft and drain. Lentils usually cook way before you finish making the salad.
    carrot, celery, red chicory, lentils, parsley, red onion, lemon, bay leaves and olive oil arranged on a white wooden table
  • Cut celery stalk lengthwise in half and then chop into around 2-3mm thick slices.
    Slice carrot with a potato peeler into ribbons and cut any long ribbons in half.Roughly chop parsley, cut chicory leaves across in half and finely chop onion.
    red chicory leaves, chopped red onion, parsley, celery and thinly sliced carrots arranged on a white plate
  • For the dressing: in a little bowl whisk 1 teaspoon of lemon juice with 2 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil until well combined and season it with salt.
    olive oi mixed with lemon juice in a white bowl
  • Mix all vegetables and chopped parsley in a bowl, pour the dressing all over and mix well again, making sure the vegetables are nicely dressed.
    Serve with cooked, warm lentils in the middle.
    chicory salad with chopped vegetables and parsley and lentils in the middle

Notes

Dressing is what really brings all flavours come together. Make sure you stir it well to the salad.
Lentils will cook much quicker if you soak them first, 3 or 4 hours should be enough, but there’s no need to soak them over night
Keyword aromatic, easy, nutritious, quick, simple