Recipe – Nigel Slater’s Hangover Salad

Ingredients

• 250g/9oz Puy lentils or other small, green lentils
• stock or water, to cover
• 1 medium-sized onion, peeled and chopped
• 1 fresh bay leaf
• 1 garlic clove

 

For the dressing

• sea salt flakes
• 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
• ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
• ground black pepper
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 short lump of fresh horseradish, for grating
• 1 handful fresh flat leaf parsley, roughly torn or chopped
• I also included 2 tbsp each of chives and mint, chopped

leftover rare roast beef, thinly sliced (3 or 4 slices per person), to serve

Preparation method

      2.    Meanwhile, make the dressing. Put a pinch of sea salt into a small bowl, add the red wine vinegar, mustard and a little ground black pepper, then beat in the olive oil until well combined. Peel the horseradish and grate finely into a separate bowl. Stir it into the dressing a little at a time. You need a couple of teaspoons of it, but add more or less to taste.

     3.  When the lentils are done, drain well and add the dressing while they are still warm. Mix in the parsley.

      4.  Place thin slivers of beef amongst the lentils, scatter over a little more sea salt, and serve. (I skipped the cold beef part and served it alongside venison.)

The recipe I used was published here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hangover_beef_salad_06490