Lentil, Beet and Orange Salad

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One of the smartest things that azygous cooks tin bash is hole ample quantities of long-cooking ingredients, specified arsenic beets and beans, connected weekends and past usage them successful assorted combinations during the week. This look depends connected that strategy, calling for cooked lentils and a cooked beet arsenic the ground of a satisfying warm-weather salad, speedy to enactment unneurotic without heating up the oven. Cooked beets are disposable astatine immoderate supermarkets; look for Melissa's marque babe beets. Or roast your ain erstwhile you navigator the lentils (see NOTES).

The lentils and beet indispensable beryllium cooked successful beforehand and chilled.

From Cooking for One columnist Joe Yonan, based connected a look successful “Bean by Bean,” by Crescent Dragonwagon (Workman, 2012).

Ingredients

1 ample orange
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 spoon honey
Sea salt
1/2 cupful cooked greenish lentils, chilled (see NOTES)
1 ample oregon 2 tiny shallots, thinly sliced
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/2 cupful mixed crockery greens
1 mean cooked beet, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch slices (See NOTES)
2 tablespoons toasted, unsalted walnuts, chopped (about 1 ounce)
1 tiny portion multigrain bread, toasted
1 ounce brushed goat cheese

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
517
Fat
24 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
60 g
Sodium
481 mg
Cholesterol
13 mg
Protein
20 g
Fiber
17 g
Sugar
25 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cooking for One columnist Joe Yonan, based connected a look successful “Bean by Bean,” by Crescent Dragonwagon (Workman, 2012).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published June 26, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026