Directions
Are you tired of washing lettuce for your salads? Want something fast and easy with a crunch?
Sprouts make a great base for salad instead of lettuce.!
Sprouts are crunchy, juicy, pleasing to eat,
and will blend well with just about any kind of salad veggies .
How do they taste? They are mild and satisfying.
A few posts ago, I showed you how to make lentils sprouts in minutes a day or of course you can buy fresh sprouts in the refrigerator section of most supermarkets.
am now sharing another delicious and highly nutritious way to use those delicious sprouts.
This salad is so tasty, I would make this for company without hesitation. It is also naturally gluten free, making it a great salad to bring to a BBQ or other gathering.
The drawback is that you do have to make or buy lentil sprouts.
But making your own sprouts is so easy that once you start sprouting lentils, you will wonder why you never did it before.
Sprouts Provide Significant Vitamin C
Sprouts are live food: Sailors on long voyages turned to growing sprouts to get their Vitamin C
When I made this salad, I simply added the vegetables to the salad that I already had in the house:
Persian cucumber, yellow cherry tomatoes, radish, red onion, and fresh chopped dill and mixed them together with my crunchy lentil sprouts that I had made 2 days prior.
These persian crunchy cucumbers are my favorite. I don't peel them them and the skin is tender
I made my lentils 2 days in advance -
Below is my recipe for this colorful healthy lentil sprout salad that is one of my favorite salads. It offers a nice diversion from the typical lettuce salad but is still crunchy, light, and tasty.
In case you missed how to sprout: How to sprout lentils
Lentil sprouts are extremely easy to make, healthy, rich in enzymes, vitamins, and minerals and can be used in a multitude of recipes. Sprouts are a living growing plant and only living food can provide us with enzymes needed for proper digestion.
You could sprout almost any bean or seed, but I like lentil sprouts.
Author:Judee Algazi
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: none
Serves: 4 regular or 2 hearty eaters
Ingredients:
2 cup of lentil sprouts
1 cup of cherry tomatoes cut in half
1 cut up sliced large red and or yellow pepper
1/2 cup of diced red onion ( or more if you LOVE it like we do)
1/4 cup of green scallions, sliced
2 radishes, diced
1/4 cup of chopped dill
Salt and cracked pepper to taste
Directions:
Assemble all of the ingredients ( lentils, cherry tomatoes, red pepper, red onion, radishes, scallions) in a large bowl . Toss and serve with or without the dressing.
Dressing:
I like to eat my salad plain, but you can try yours with Italian dressing or a light dressing of olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
My Notes:
I promise to take a break from sharing sprouted lentil recipes- but once you make the sprouts, you need recipes to use them up. Just saying--
