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With the temperatures dropping more and more with each passing day, and owing to my declaration of 'Salad week' yesterday, I wanted to create a salad with a little Spring flair this evening.
And then my neighbour dropped in a big plate of spelt spanakopita that his mother had made for us, so I wanted to keep our salad light.
Starting with tomatoes, capsicum and cucumber.
Followed by lentils and corn…
Finished with fresh herbs…
Parsley and mint!
Combined then piled high.
Now, while this salad was quite tasty on its own,
Particularly with the sweet corn kernels,
And the tomato / fresh herb combination,
It called for something extra. Thus, this salad went from a plain lentil salad, to a maple-tahini lentil salad in a matter of seconds.
The secret?
A quick and easy maple tahini dressing!
4 ingredients – resulting resulting in a rich and creamy dressing…
Drizzled over the salad for the perfect finishing touch.
A super easy no fuss addition to my Salad Week.
Served with a few slices of the homemade spanakopita.
Delish!
Maple-tahini Lentil Salad (serves 2)
- 1.5 cups cooked lentils
- 6 tomatoes, quartered
- 1 cucumber, diced
- 1 red capsicum, diced
- 1 cob corn, kernels only
- handful fresh parsley, chopped
- handful fresh mint, chopped
- 2 tbs tahini
- 1 tbs maple syrup
- 1 tbs dijon mustard
- 4 tbs water
- Combine the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Divide between two serving dishes.
- To make the sauce, whisk together the tahini, maple syrup and dijon mustard. Add the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, stirring well to combine.
- Drizzle a generous portion of the dressing over the salad to serve.
What about you? Do you know your neighbours? We are lucky enough to live next to two very generous Greek neighbours who love to surprise us with authentic Greek dishes (and figs!) on a regular basis. We are very lucky indeed!
PS - I finally updated my recipe page! Click here to check it out and let me know if you think any are missing.
Happy Baking :)
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Oh man! I love everything in this recipe! Why can't a fairy leave this on my doorstep?
ReplyDeleteThe most my neighbours ever give me is a headache by keeping me up until 2am the night before a half marathon :P
ReplyDeleteYou are lucky indeed! x
I just made a tahini sauce for the first time the other day! I never would have thought to add dijon and maple. I can't wait to try this.
ReplyDeleteOh my...I have a huge jar of tahini that I've been too scared to open. I am definitely making this dressing tonight!!
ReplyDeleteYUM this looks so good!! So fresh and delicious.
ReplyDeleteThis looks so delicious and healthy. And i love spanakopita, lucky you!
ReplyDeleteHehe I wish my neighbours would drop by things like that! The salad looks like the Italian flag! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, this is beautiful! And that dressing sounds like perfection :)
ReplyDeletelove the maple-tahini combo :) so full of colors and flavors!
ReplyDeletedon't think I have combined tahini and maple syrup before but now I want to - sounds a delicious salad
ReplyDeleteI love salads with mint and parsley, they always taste to fresh and healthy!
ReplyDeleteThis salad looks so delicious!! I love fresh mint and parsley! You are so lucky to have such nice neighbors :)
ReplyDeleteThis looks so yummy. I was going to make your rice paper rolls but now I'm thinking maybe I should make this salad....decisions, decisions...
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed by your recipe page - so do you just add them every time you post a new recipe? I've thought about doing that but am scared of how long that might take me!
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