Warm lentil, bacon and kale salad with poached egg. Fill a medium pan half full with water and bring to the boil. Crack an egg into a ramekin. Season with freshly ground black pepper.

Keep French green lentils stocked in your pantry and you'll be that much closer to. This tasty salad makes a great veggie main course. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. You can have Warm lentil, bacon and kale salad with poached egg using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Warm lentil, bacon and kale salad with poached egg

1. Prepare 4 tbsp of dried green lentils.
2. It's 1/2 of onion, chopped.
3. It's 2 of Bacon rashers, chopped.
4. You need 2 of large handfuls of kale.
5. You need 2 of cloves garlic, finely chopped.
6. You need 1 of large egg.

Warm lentil and poached egg salad. Bacon, Egg, and Kale Breakfast Salad. Based loosely on the flavors of a BLT, this salad is hearty and light at the same time. See how to poach an egg for our recommendation on the easiest way to do it.

Warm lentil, bacon and kale salad with poached egg instructions

1. Wash and rinse lentils in cold water..
2. Boil lentils vigorously in fresh water for 10 minutes. Then simmer in a covered pan for 20-30 minutes, making sure they don't run dry..
3. Meanwhile, gently fry the onions, garlic, and bacon together in a pan until soft..
4. Next add the kale and cooked lentils and cook for a further 5 minutes until the kale is tender and reduced down..
5. Meanwhile, poach an egg in a pan of boiling water..
6. Assemble with the egg on top of the lentil mixture, and enjoy as a warm salad..

Then add the warm poached egg on top. THAT is a salad lyonnaise - a contrast of textures with the warm Easy Poached Eggs. Curried Egg Salad with Mango Chutney. You can cook lentils like this for lots of other salads, too. They're also very good as a side salad, without any embellishment, served at room temperature.