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Goat’s cheese, broad bean, lemon and lentil salad

Name: Goat’s cheese, broad bean, lemon and lentil salad
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 200g frozen broad beans; 250g pack Merchant Gourmet Ready to Eat Puy Lentils (from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose); 3-4 spring onions, sliced diagonally; 75g Peppadew Piquante peppers, halved (from Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s), or similar; Handful each of fresh mint and basil, finely chopped, plus extra to serve; Finely pared zest of 1 lemon, juice of ½; 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 150g Sainsbury’s soft goat’s cheese, or similar

Easy
June 2012

Easy
June 2012

Test kitchen approved

Serves 2
Hands-on 20 min

Use pre-cooked lentils, frozen broad beans and jarred red peppers make this herby goat’s cheese salad for quick midweek meal.

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Ingredients

200g frozen broad beans
250g pack Merchant Gourmet Ready to Eat Puy Lentils (from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose)
3-4 spring onions, sliced diagonally
75g Peppadew Piquante peppers, halved (from Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s), or similar
Handful each of fresh mint and basil, finely chopped, plus extra to serve
Finely pared zest of 1 lemon, juice of ½
3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
150g Sainsbury’s soft goat’s cheese, or similar

Method

Plunge the broad beans into boiling salted water and simmer for 1-2 minutes only. Drain and refresh in cold water, then, once cool, pop each bean out of its skin and put in a serving bowl (discard skins). Tip the lentils into the bowl and stir through the spring onions, peppers and herbs.
In a separate bowl, whisk the lemon zest and juice together with the olive oil and good pinch of seasoning. Toss three-quarters of this dressing through the lentil salad until mixed through. Top with dollops of the goat’s cheese, then finish with more herbs and the remaining dressing drizzled over.