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Instant Pot Puy Lentil Salad

Instant Pot Fusion Puy Lentil Salad

Maria
A delicious and super easy recipe. By the time the puy lentils are cooked you'll have everything else ready with hardly any effort
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Course Main Course, Salad
Cuisine Fusion

Ingredients
  

  • 150 g puy lentils
  • Half a red onion
  • Juice of half lemon
  • Half a teaspoon of pomegranate molasses
  • 1 teaspoon of sumac
  • 1 handful of fresh coriander chopped
  • 120 g tinned tuna or try searing fresh tuna to go with it
  • 2 small cooked beetroots sliced
  • White asparagus 190 g jar, drained weight is 110g
  • A handful of sesame seeds or sunflower seeds or both
  • Crushed cashew nuts for a bit of crunch optional

Instructions
 

Start by cooking the Puy lentils in the Instant Pot or pressure cooker:

  • 150 g puy lentils, rinsed with water in a sieve, and placed in the inner pot with 2 cups of water (450 ml), natural release. In the Instant Pot all you need to do is press Pressure Cook / Manual and then the – (minus) button to programme 1 minute (or use the dial if your cooker has a dial, of course). Natural pressure release at the end (while you put your salad together).
    In a conventional pressure cooker: bring to high pressure and cook for 1 minute, natural release.
    If you want to cook morelentils, all you have to do is make sure that the lentils are covered inwater.

While the lentils are cooking, work on the other ingredients:

  • Add to a large bowl:
    – Half a red onion, cut in thin wedges
    – Juice of half lemon
    – Half a teaspoon of pomegranate molasses
    – 1 teaspoon of sumac
    – 1 handful of fresh coriander, chopped
  • Mix well.
  • Then add:
    – 120 g tinned tuna (or try searing fresh tuna to go with it
    – 2 small cooked beetroots, sliced
    – White asparagus, 190 g jar, drained weight is 110g
    – A handful of sesame seeds or sunflower seeds, or both
    – Green olives (as many as you want), I tend to have a big jar of basic pimiento stuffed olives like this one at all times, very handy for these salads and for snacks
    – Crushed cashew nuts for a bit of crunch (optional)
  • Mix well
  • Drain the lentils when they are ready, after they've done a natural pressure release.
    If you fancy a warm salad, then add the lentils straight away.
    If you fancy a cooler salad, place the cooked lentils in a sieve and rinse with cold water before adding to the rest of the ingredients.
  • Mix well and drizzle with extra pomegranate molasses, lemon juice and sumac before eating if you fancy more.
Keyword lentils, pulses, puy lentils, salad
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