Super Easy Lentil Salad!

Die DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG findet ihr unter dem englischen Rezept!

I'm currently staying in Berlin with friends while I'm doing some research for work in the basement of a library (oh yeah, microfilms!)... Fortunately, I get to use my friends' kitchen! I worked in an archive (in a small town in Eastern Germany) for a week last year and not having a kitchen drove me crazy... I was "only" a vegetarian back then, so getting food wasn't quite as hard yet. Now that I'm in Berlin, vegan food is really easy to come by, but I just love to cook, so was I am more than grateful that I can use my friends' kitchen.

Today, I made a "leftovers and stuff that needed to go" dish. This lentil salad was part of it:

Ingredients:

• 100g of red lentils
• 200ml of veggie stock
• 1 tomato
• half a green bell pepper
• half a yellow bell pepper (leftovers from yesterday's soup!)
• 1 onion
• some salt (optional! Depends on how salty your veggie stock is!)
• some pepper
• 1/2 tablespoon of powdered curry
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar (or really any other yummy vinegar)

Red Lentil Veggie Soup

Die DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG findet ihr unter dem englischen Rezept!

Yet another incredibly easy dish! And super tasty, too. If you happen to not have one ingredient or the other in the house, you can always replace things. You can basically swap out any of the veggies as long as you stick to the lentils, water, and seasoning.

Ingredients for six servings:

• 150g red lentils
• 3 large carrots
• 1 leek
• 3 onions
• 3 cloves of garlic
• fresh ginger (about the size of a thumb)
• salt
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, for example, sunflower seed oil.
• 50g tomato paste
• 1l of water
• a handfull of hazelnuts
• half a green bell pepper
• half a red bell pepper
• 2 table spoons of balsamic vinegar
• a handfull of fresh herbs, for example, parsley or basil