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Chicken Lentil Salad:Number of People: 4
Ingredients:1 litre water
35g Thermomix vegetable stock
250g green lentils
500g chicken breast fillets
Salt, fresh grinded black pepper
300g carrots
250g cherry tomatoes, quartered
25g parsley leaves
1 big red apple
Sauce:20g of our previously prepared vegetable broth
30g extra virgin olive oil
20g mustard
20g white wine vinegar
Preparation: * Wash lentils and leave them in cold water for 2 hours before you use
* Put water and vegetable stock in TM Bowl and mix for 10 seconds on Speed 4. Cook for 10 minutes at 100ºC on Speed 2
* In the meantime cut carrots into thin round slices and put them in Varoma Bowl
* Wet baking papaer under the tap water and squeeze well and place in Varoma Tray
* Season chicken fillets with salt and fresh grinded pepper. Fold baking paper onto chicken fillets
* Get 20g of Thermomix vegetable broth that you just prepared and set aside
* Wash and drain lentils. Add them into the broth in TM Bowl. Place Varoma Bowl and Tray
* Cook for 30 minutes at Varoma Temperature on Reverse/Soft Speed
* Drain cooked lentils, put them in a deep bowl and let them cool (you can use lentil-vegetable broth for your soups if you wish)
* Add tomatoes onto lentils
* Put carrots into another plate
* Rinse and dry TM Bowl with cold water
* Chop parsley for 5 seconds on Speed 7
* Add 1/3 of chopped parsley onto carrots. Drizzle with a little oil, season with salt and mix
* Add the remaining 2/3 of parsley onto lentils
* Rinse again TM Bowl roughly.
* Add all the sauce ingredients and mix for 15 seconds on Speed 3
* Cut apple in quarters and remove the seeds.
* Cut apple into thin slices. Put them in a bowl. Pour the sauce onto apples and gently mix
* Keep apple slices aside to decorate serving plate later! Pour the sauce onto lentils and mix
* Cut chicken into strips
* Put lentil salad and carrots into serving plate. Place chicken strips on the lentils, decorate with apple slices and serve
* You can serve cold or tepid
Afiyet olsun...
It's adapted from a recipe in Mutfak Rehberi Magazine with a few modifications
Photos: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicken-lentil-salad.html