Where are we with lentils? I mean I lose track of whether they are good or not good. Are they a legume? Do they have lectins which will make you shrivel up and die like the baddie in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when he picks the wrong holy grail? If you get them out of a can are they processed? Are they going to bloat me up, make me fat, give me cancer?? And what about onions? Where are we with those?
Anyway look don’t tell me actually. It’s not like I eat them every day, only on special occasions and I always take my vitamins and go spinning to offset the potentially deadly effects of lentils.
I’m being silly! *Drops dead*.
This is a great midweek dinner, if you can get hold of some nice salmon. The lentils don’t sound that promising, but they are very good. You can skip out the cucumber yoghurt if you came back from the shops without the necessary stuff.
Salmon and spicy lentils
for 2
2 Salmon fillets
1 400g can cooked brown lentils, rinsed
1 onion – any shape or size, finely chopped
1 tsp each of cumin, garam marsala, turmeric
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
small knob ginger, chopped (this is not essential)
salt and pepper
olive oil
lemon
cucumber – about 2 inches in one piece
about 10 mint leaves
yoghurt, a couple of big spoonfuls
Pre-heat the oven to 220C
1 Fry the onion gently in some olive oil for 15 minutes then add the ginger and spices and continue to cook for another few minutes. Add the lentils and heat through.
2 Put the salmon fillets on some tin foil on a baking tray, season with salt and pepper and lay a lemon slice over each fillet – again, if you’ve run out lemons don’t freak out and throw the whole lot away.
3 Put salmon in the oven for 23 minutes
4 Meanwhile grate the cucumber into a bowl, spoon over the yoghurt, chop in the cucumber, season and give it a stir.
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June 16, 2017 at 9:24 am
Do you really mean 23 minutes????
June 16, 2017 at 12:26 pm
I like my fish COOKED
June 16, 2017 at 4:41 pm
Me too
June 16, 2017 at 2:31 pm
Thankyou. I’d never thought of grating a cucumber before.
June 21, 2017 at 9:51 am
I know, but it’s better than chopping. Grate the cucumber then squeeze it hard in your hands to get excess water out (this is a very slightly messy job) before you add the yoghurt
June 16, 2017 at 4:41 pm
I think this looks nice, going to try it. The cucumber thing looks like a good alternative to coleslaw, which sometimes pisses me off.
June 16, 2017 at 8:12 pm
Love a meal like this. Easy and no stress. Could use tzaiziki if on hand, my family like skewered chicken. Thank you.
June 18, 2017 at 1:12 am
Lentil Dhal with a poached egg on top is what I eat, repetitively, for dinner if I’m the only adult in the house. It’s my secret skanky supper. I can go disgustingly (read: deliciously) over the top with the ginger and chilli and there’s nobody there to moue their dissent. If a scare story about lentils emerges I will be enraged and yet defiant, and most likely channel John Gummer.
June 18, 2017 at 8:35 pm
*spoons lentils into child’s mouth*