Combine them together and you have a winner of a salad!

Lentil and Roasted Eggplant Salad

I feel like this eggplant salad is unleashing my Ottolenghi within.

Except (dare I say it!)

Close up of Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad

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(Also, youre getting this recipe for free his cookbooks are rather expensive!!)

So what makes this lentil salad so good?

Oh and its just downright tasty.

Platter of Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad ready to be served

Thats why I went to the effort of photographing / filming / writing it up!!

What you’re gonna wanna make the tasty lentils!

(Well, colander ).

How to make tasty lentils

Use green lentils, brown lentils or French/puy lentils for this recipe.

The roasted eggplant

Heres all it’s crucial that you make the roasted eggplant.

But no, thats inconvenient for YOU.

Ingredients in Oven Roasted Eggplant

So Ive written how to roast the eggplant in this recipe too!

Today, its feta!

How to make this lentil eggplant salad

And heres how to make this salad.

Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad ingredients

But it really isnt a tricky or lengthy recipe.

Plump, juicy and caramelised rather than a pile of mush or shrivelled up disaster!

It should serve 4 normal adults, or 3 with very hearty appetites.

How to make Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad

A side ofcrusty breadwould certainly fill it out (hot, with lashings of butter!).

Or try it withflatbreads tear bits off and stuff with this salad!

Which also makes it really good for a work lunch.

Overhead photo of Oven Roasted Eggplant on a tray, fresh out of the oven

Im not sure that your work colleagues will be overly jealous when you tell them youre having eggplant salad.

But thats ok. That your lunch trumps theirs can be our little secret.

Drizzling lemon dressing over Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad

Close up of Roasted Eggplant Lentil Salad

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