Curried Bean Salad

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 (15 ounce) cans beans
• 1 cup cooked black lentils
• 1/2 medium red onion, thinly sliced into crescents
• 3/4 cup celery, chopped
• 1 garlic clove
• 1/2 teaspoon of fine-grain sea salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
• 1 -2 teaspoon freshly grated gingerroot
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped

Recipe

• 1 wash and pick over the lentils. place them in a large saucepan and cover with water using 2-3x the quantity of lentils. bring to a boil, scale back the heat a bit and simmer for 15-20 minutes, until lentils are tender but not splitting apart. salt to taste at this point. remove from heat and drain any remaining liquid.
• 2 in a large bowl toss the beans, black lentils, red onion, and celery. make the curry vinaigrette by mashing the garlic clove with the salt into a thick paste. in a bowl or jar whisk together this garlic paste, the curry powder, fresh ginger, lemon juice, and olive oil. whisk well, taste, and add adjust flavors/salt if needed. pour about half of the dressing over the beans and give it all a toss. add more dressing a bit at a time until it is to your liking. taste, make sure the salad has enough salt.