Lentil & Merguez Sausage Salad
Lentils and sausages always work well together and this salad is no exception – beautiful served while still warm. The dressing is delicious and there’s no oil so it’s nice and low cal.
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 small red onion, sliced into crescents
- 6 merguez sausages, sliced fairly thinly on the diagonal
- 200g baby spinach, well washed
- 250g cooked green or puy lentils (from a can or pack)
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- flaked sea salt
Dressing
- 200g cherry tomatoes, cut into quarters
- 1 tsp mustard
- 2 tsp red wine vinegar
- pinch of sugar
- flaked sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Heat a griddle pan for at least 5 minutes until it’s extremely hot. Put the onion in a small bowl, sprinkle it with salt and pour over some cold water. Leave it to stand for 5 minutes, then drain.
- Grill the sausages on the hot griddle for a couple of minutes on each side, until cooked through and well charred. Remove them from the heat and set aside.
- Divide the spinach between 4 plates. Arrange the lentils, red pepper and drained red onion over the spinach, then top with the cooked sliced sausages.
- For the dressing, put the tomatoes in a frying pan and warm them through until they start giving out juice. Whisk the mustard, red wine vinegar and sugar into the juices and cook for a further minute or so. Season with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle the tomato dressing over the salad and sausages, then sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately.
Recipe taken from:
The Hairy Bikers Fast Food Recipes from The Hairy Dieters Fast Food by Si King and Dave Myers (£14.99, Orion Books)
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