Adding beans or legumes to a healthy diet is easy with this Spinach, Beet and Lentil Salad. With a few toasted walnuts and some goat cheese, you won’t even miss the meat in this meatless main dish salad.
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Beets and Carrots for Color and Crunch
Don’t you love salads that combine everything you need and want in one gorgeous bowl!! Take this Spinach, Beet and Lentil Salad for example. Raw beets and shaved carrots add beautiful color and crunch. Walnuts add their nutty goodness. Then toss on some lentils for some protein and tart goat cheese for some tang. Top it with a creamy tahini dressing and you’ve got the perfect lunch or dinner salad! Even breakfast, no one is going to stop you!
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Spinach, Beet and Lentil Salad
This salad is so easy to toss together. You simply shave some beets very thinly. I think that next time I might julienne them to be able to spread the beet love around. I whipped up a big batch of lentils in my Instant Pot, so they had them for salads through the week. You want your beets really thin for this salad, I used this mandoline. You probably want to serve it in some cute bowls too like these coconut bowls.
Spinach, Beet and Lentil Salad
Crunchy beets, crispy spinach and meaty lentils make a delicious lunch or dinner salad in this Spinach, Beet, and Lentil Salad.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp tahini
- 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp maple syrup
- 1 1/2 cups baby spinach
- 2 tbs beets thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup lentils cooked
- 2 tbs carrots shaved
- 2 tbs walnuts chopped
- 2 tbs goat cheese crumbled
Instructions
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Mix together tahini, lemon juice and maple syrup in a small bowl.
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Place spinach in a bowl and top with other ingredients. Drizzle on the dressing.
Looking for more beet recipes:
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Lindsay @ The Live-In Kitchen says
Beautiful! I love all the colors.
Lisa | Garlic & Zest says
I love the colors in this salad — golden beets are so dramatic, don’t you think? Lentils have always been one of my favorites, too!
Annie @ Annie's Noms says
Creamy tahini dressing?! Yes please!! This salad looks so wonderful and love that you’ve got protein and nuts in there too!!
Julia @ Happy Foods Tube says
This salad looks delicious. I am jealous of those pretty yellow beets that I can’t find around here 🙂
Michelle | The Last Food Blog says
This has everything I love in a salad! Perfect 😉
Miz Helen says
This is a beautiful salad! Hope you are having a fantastic week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday. We will look forward to seeing you again real soon!
Miz Helen
Tina Culbertson says
It’s the carrots that are orangy in the salad, right? I think that was probably a stupid question! It’s lovely and I could make a good lunch out of it today!
Thanks for you assistance with my set up on FB but oh my, I couldn’t stand the politics!
Pam Greer says
Yes, it can get pretty bad on there!
Tina Culbertson says
I only;y had 4 friends!!! You’d think that wouldn’t be bad. Thank you for always being a reasonable non-pushy person who takes great photos and makes wonderful meals.
Tina
xo
Ellen Pilch says
This looks good except I would change the walnuts and use pecans.
Carol says
Looks like a beautiful tasty salad. Pinned and shared
Ann says
I am so in to Puy lentils right now.
Sandee says
Oh this sounds yummy. It looks yummy too.
Have a fabulous day. ☺