Healthy Cook-Up with Dr. Soski: Episode 14 - Warm Lentil Beet Salad!!

(Previously recorded on Facebook Live)

This week I will be showing you how to throw together a recipe based on what I need to use form my garden. Right now I have beets, green beans, and tomatoes, so lets see what we can throw together!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup lentils, soaked for 6 hours

• 2 garlic cloves, smashed & peeled

• ¼ tsp oregano

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 3-4 whole beets, chopped

• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

• 1 cup green beans, chopped and blanched

• Optional additions: red pepper, avocado, olives, feta, goat, or vegan cheese, basil, arugula

• Optional: serve over rice, quinoa, or lettuce

• Vinaigrette to roost beets in:

• ¼ red onion (yellow works as well), finely chopped

• 2 garlic cloves, minced

• 2 tbsp Italian seasoning

• 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

• 1 tsp maple syrup

• ½ tsp salt

• ½ tsp pepper

• 1 cup olive oil

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

• Make vinaigrette or use premade.

• Chop beets into small or medium small pieces (the larger then are the more time it will take to cook.)

• Toss beets in vinaigrette so they are coated. Lay them on a baking sheet and cook in oven for 20-45 minutes (depending on size).

• Rinse soaked lentils in put in 3-4 cups of water. Add bay leaves, oregano, cinnamon, 2 cloves of garlic and a pinch of salt. Bring to boil then simmer for 20 minutes.

• While beets and lentils are cooking, blanch and prepare the rest of your vegetables.

• When all ingredients are cooked or prepared, toss together in a medium bowl.

• Serve over rice, quinoa, or salad greens and add optional toppings.

• Enjoy!

This video was dedicated to Trauma Response and Crisis Care (TRACC) for Movements. TRACC4Movements is a project (of which I am a part of) responding to trauma in social movements: providing community care, triage trauma and crisis response on the frontlines, & healer training and education to support activists and social movements. We believe that we are in a sociopolitical moment which multiplies the impact of trauma and burnout for activists and community organizers. We see this as equivalent to a public health crisis and one that we, in TRACC4Movements, as healing care providers, have a responsibility to respond to in an organized, ethical and coordinated way. Check them out and stay tuned on ways you can help support this organization (as the previous campaign has ended). https://www.tracc4movements.com/