Fall Lentil Salad recipe with a Lemon-Shallot Dressing - My Kitchen Love (2024)

Lentil Salad with a Lemon-Shallot Dressing to bring all the best and brightest flavours together in a hearty and satisfying salad recipe. A great lentil salad recipe for a wholesome meal.

This Fall Lentil Salad recipe with a Lemon-Shallot Dressing came up as the result of a much too indulgent weekend. You know the one? Too much food that was ordered or packaged and not fresh. Perhaps a bit too much wine one night. All in all the weekend was packed with many calories and my pants either needed to be let out or I need some salad in my life stat.

I actually become quite unhappy with consuming too many meals that are not home cooked. I realize that makes me super weird since most people are looking for reasons to eat out, but it really gets to me and I immediately notice a difference in the health of my family and to be perfectly frank, the behaviour of my kids.

Meals at home mean more time together chatting at the table, learning more about each other and letting my kids learn about themselves too. The distractions of a restaurant are significant as well as frequent.I find it difficult to keep all 3 kids content and in their seats as well as eat anything (two 3 year olds and a baby will do that I guess). Z&I (twins) are at an age where they’re really starting to remember foods, eating sensations (smell, textures, in addition to tastes),and in being twins are looking to form further self-identities.

This makes each and every meal an exciting way to figure out what they like or don’t like about the food presented to them and how they’re similar or different. I’m sure the fact that we don’t have the same staple dishes week in and week out helps keep meal time stimulating for them. Except those weeks where we rotate mac and cheese with grilled cheese 😉

With Fall comes a bit of a lack of leafy greens that I like in my salad (sorry kale). I do love, love, love me some brussels sprouts and since they’re parked next to the goat’s cheese I thought I could get away with having them in this salad. Apparently they’re still a no-go for my husband, which is a shame for him, but a score for me. If you’re highly against BS (hahahaha, Brussels Sprouts) then I’d substitute any cabbage or leafy green you like that is in season (kale, swiss chard, etc.).

This Lentil Salad and the tangy toothsome Lemon-Shallot Dressing made me feel like I was getting way more nutrients and replenishing what I’d lost over my indulgent weekend. Do you have a family favourite salad? We don’t do Caesar salad since I haven’t found a way to make the dressing taste authentic without adding raw egg (which I’m nervous about giving to my kids to eat). Any recommendations?

Other satisfying and hearty salads:

• Healthier Potato Cobb Salad
• Cauliflower and Lentil Salad
• Orzo and Asparagus Salad

Enjoy! xo