Curried Chicken and Lentil Salad with Minted Yoghurt Dressing
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recipe by Tenina Holder https://bit.ly/TheWeekendTable
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- Total Time
- 54mins
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- Serves
- 8
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- Calories
- 246
Lentils, curried chicken with homemade curry powder, and fresh minted yoghurt dressing equals one super-tasty salad. You'll be impressed with yourself.
Inspired by: https://tenina.com/recipes/curried-chicken-and-lentil-salad-with-minted-yoghurt-dressingrecipe updated 12 Jan 2022
Ingredients
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- Chicken breast
- 2
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- Mint leaves
- 1 handful
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- Roma tomato
- 200 g
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- Cucumber
- 1
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- Pear
- 1
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- Water
- 1 L
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- Fennel seeds
- ½ teaspoon
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- Coriander seeds
- ½ teaspoon
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- Cumin seeds
- ½ teaspoon
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- White peppercorns
- ½ teaspoon
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- Garlic clove
- 1
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- Ground turmeric
- ½ teaspoon
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- Chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon
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- Nutmeg
- 1 pinch
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- Pink himalayan salt flakes
- 1 pinch
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- Extra virgin olive oil
- 50 g
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- Puy lentils
- 100 g
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- Mangetout
- 150 g
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- Extra virgin olive oil
- as needed
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- Lemon juice
- as needed
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- Pink himalayan salt flakes
- as needed
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- Rocket
- 120 g
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- Yoghurt mint dip
- 100 g
Tools
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Wooden spoon
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TM5
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Simmering basket
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Frying pan
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Varoma dish
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Large mixing bowl
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Tm5 bowl
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Medium bowl
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Varoma tray - tm5
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Serving plate
Step preview
- Add fennel seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, white peppercorns and garlic clove to a clean frying pan
- Dry roast until smoking and very fragrant, then let cool
- Add ground turmeric, chili powder, nutmeg and salt flakes to the TM bowl
- Blitz with MC on - 10 sec, speed 10
- Add chicken breast to a clean large mixing bowl
- Tip curry powder and the EVOO on top
- Toss thoroughly until coated
- Transfer chicken to Varoma dish and set aside
- Place rinsed French lentils into basket and insert into Thermomix bowl
- Add water and set Varoma into position
- Cook - 20 min, Varoma, speed 4
- Stir chicken
- Place snow peas onto Varoma tray and insert into Varoma
- Steam - 4 min, Varoma, speed 4
- Set chicken and snow peas aside
- Place drained lentils into separate bowl
- Drizzle lentils with EVOO, lemon juice and add salt to taste
- Allow to cool slightly
- Assemble salad by placing rocket and mint leaves around the edges of a large salad platter
- Arrange tomatoes, cucumber and pear on top of rocket
- Add cooled chicken to lentils and toss together
- Pile into centre of platter and drizzle entire salad with dip