Hello And Merhaba from Istanbul! In this post, I have a healthy and easy green lentil and pasta recipe with diced carrots, corns, pickles and yogurt sauce dressing it is a delicious salad. It is also great for summer and a light lunch or with afternoon tea along with a Turkish poacha or borek. If you want to make this salad a high protein meal just simply omit the pasta and add more cooked lentils. I am sure with all the vegetables and yogurt sauce it will be very delicious that way too.

Ingredients for Lentil And Pasta Salad:

• 1 cup green lentils (cooked until almost soft)
• 250 gr. ditalini pasta (cooked)
• 2 carrots (peeled, diced in pasta size and cooked)
• 5-6 pickled cucumbers (diced in the same size)
• about 1/2 cup corn (I used about one corn on the cob)
• a handful of fresh parsley and mint (optional)
• 1 tsp each dried mint and hot red pepper flakes (hot pepper is optional )
• salt to taste
• 1+1/2 cups or more plain thick yogurt
• about 4-5 tbsp or more if you desire mayonnaise

Method:

1. Cook the green lentils, pasta, and small diced carrots separately until soft
2. Get ready the corns from the cob or canned or if from freezer cook it.
3. Dice the cucumber pickles in the same size as pasta and carrots
4. In a big bowl mix everything well except yogurt and mayonnaise
5. Add yogurt and mayonnaise preferably close to serving time, mix well and serve.
6. Afiyet olsun!

Here is the Ayran Drink recipe with mint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvQvQlYpFE If you want plain ayran just skip the mint and you can mix it with hand whisker too.

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