[food] lentil & root veg salad

This is (my approximation of) something that was regularly on the menu at the Michaelhouse Cafe lo these many years ago. I tended to get it as part of their quiche + three salads lunch option (... as a special treat, not regularly, I feel the need to explain), and that's mostly the context I make it in these days too -- usually to go with the caramelised onion and butternut squash tart (also v. good with additional beetroot, as we have recently discovered). You can vary the root veg; you can add cheese or seeds or nuts; if you are not sharing it with someone who is suspicious of most uncooked green herbs, basil honourably excepted, you can also fill it with parsley vel sim (... I am too tired for not Latin, sorry, have a wiktionary)

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