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We are not great salad eaters. Yes we love our hot veggies and with our new veggie garden, 1/2 of which will be salad veggies, things have to change. With this in mind, I bought a new cook book, Community.  The author is Hetty McKinnon. What grabbed my attention was that most recipes are based on what I have in my pantry , fridge and garden. I have changed the ingredients and method and adapted the recipe to TMX , where suitable.
As I looked through the book I was saying, that looks good and yes I can make that. And yes, that is TMX friendly.

Ingredients. For 3 large serves.

6 Turkish dried figs, sliced
150g Puy lentils, rinsed
2 cups of mixed salad greens, watercress or rocket or radish top, if you have it.
1 dessert spoon EVOO.
1 small clove of garlic, smashed.
50g feta
1/2 cup roasted Walnuts.
Caramelised Balsamic, enough to cover figs. (See previous recipe. )

Soak figs in Caramalised Balsamic, 3 hours or over night.
Place lentils in TMX basket and add 1 litre of water to bowl. Cook 30 minutes,/100/ speed 3.
Add lentils while still warm to figs. Add oil and garlic.
When ready to serve mix in salad leaves.
Arrange on platter and add feta and walnuts.

I served this with salmon, but would go nicely with any fish, chicken or meat.
Could add roasted pumpkin.
Puy lentils remain whole when cooked, unlike other lentils.

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2015, 06:42:02 am »

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2015, 07:11:05 am »
Not quite on topic, but I love your salad servers ... the salad looks good as well!
Marina from Melbourne and Guildford
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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2015, 07:50:18 am »
Marina , the servers came from Stellenbosch in South Africa. We visited there a few years back.

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2015, 01:44:35 am »
The salad looks delicious. I'd make that alone for lunch. I love having greens for lunch all year.
May all dairy items in your fridge be of questionable vintage.

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2015, 04:22:42 am »
Cookie, you will have to buy 'Community'. I have the Monday Morning Cooking Club. The recipes are excellent but as written by a group of Jewish women, they are loaded with sugar and butter. The profit from the books go to charities. There are stories about where the families came from to Australia.

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2015, 07:34:03 am »
I will definitely check out Community.
May all dairy items in your fridge be of questionable vintage.

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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2015, 10:04:21 am »
Does this recipe use up all of the balsamic?
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Re: Puy Lentils with Balsamic soaked Figs, watercress and Walnuts.
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2015, 10:06:08 am »
Does this recipe use up all of the balsamic?
No, about 1/3 was used.