Sexy Lentil Salad

Secret to a great lentil salad - cook lentils in a simple flavoured broth or marinate canned lentils. Sprinkle with feta, drizzle with lemon salad dressing!

Roasted Eggplant With Tahini, Pine Nuts, and Lentils

This dish of eggplant roasted until caramelized and tender, served over stewed lentils with an extraordinarily light and creamy tahini sauce and crunchy pine nuts, was dinner and lunch for more meals than I care to count a couple of weeks back. Not that I'm complaining: It's extremely good.

Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant with Couscous

Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant with Couscous - 15 minutes prep for this fragrant melt-in-your-mouth eggplant piled high with a fresh couscous. Divine starter or as a meal. (Vegan Tahini Drizzle recipe included as an alternative to dolloping yoghurt on!)

Lentil Tabbouleh Salad with French Lentils - Striped Spatula

This easy to make lentil salad combines the bright, fresh flavors of tabbouleh with tender, protein-packed lentils. Serve it as a light lunch with warm flatbread, on a mezze board, or as a side dish.

Roasted Tomatoes and Lentils With Dukka-Crumbed Eggs From 'A Change of Appetite'

There's a reason oozing, soft-cooked eggs are arguably overused in food styling. That glistening ovum gold is like icing dripping down a cake, and anything underneath it is transformed into something richer, tastier, and more appealing. I would have been sold on this recipe from Diana Henry's new A Change of Appetite without that lusty addition, given my fondness for lentils in vinaigrette, but that broken yolk sealed the deal.

Lentil Soup (seriously amazing!)

Don't settle for a bland Lentil Soup. Just a few little tips make all the difference, and you'll have everyone begging for seconds .... and thirds!

Oven Roasted Eggplant (aubergine)

This is a recipe for how to make roasted eggplant so they're plump and juicy inside and gorgeously caramelised on the ouside, rather than a soggy mush.

Lentil Ragout - French Puy lentil side dish

A wonderful simple, classic lentil side dish using dried lentils that takes a mere 10 minutes to prepare then you just let it simmer away for 30 minutes to work its magic!

Antipasto Chickpea Salad

I can't wait for you to get hooked on this Chickpea Salad too! Easy to make, mainly just opening jars, filled with punchy antipasto flavours.

Arugula, Fennel, and Green Lentil Salad from 'River Cottage Veg'

As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall grumbles in River Cottage Veg, arugula has become too popular for its own good. His arugula-fennel-lentil salad is an attempt to celebrate the green on its own merit. Earthy lentils and the crunchy, anise notes of fennel do indeed balance the peppery lettuce, and bright lemon zest enlivens the mix.