Cheap Eats: Chicken and Lentil Salad

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Looking for more ways to put legumes in your diet.  I try to have at least one meal per week that includes legumes.

Here is a great, simple but tasty salad using lentils.  It's great as a side dish or served as a tapa.  I used the bits and pieces left over from a rotisserie chicken served earlier in the week.

Chicken and Lentil Salad
(Source: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-lentil-salad-50400000116284/)

Ingredient

1 cup brown lentils, sorted of debris and rinsed

1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil

1/3 cup lemon juice 

1 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed

1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon

1/2 cup slivered red onion

1 cup shredded rotisserie chicken

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves

 

Preparation

1. Simmer lentils in 1 qt. lightly salted water in a covered saucepan just until tender to the bite, 15 minutes. Drain.
2. Mix remaining ingredients in a bowl, then gently stir in warm lentils.