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Lamb, Pea & Bean Salad

Here's how you make Lamb, Pea & Bean Salad
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  • Servings: 1
  • Prep: 5m
  • Cook: 30m
  • The following recipe serves 1 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 60 grams dry pearl barley (1/4 cup, rinsed under cold water)
  • 65 grams frozen green peas (1/2 cup)
  • 50 grams frozen broad beans (1/2 cup)
  • 100 grams lamb (fillet, trimmed of fat)
  • 1 cup mint leaves
  • 30 grams low-fat feta (crumbled)
  • FOR DRESSING
  • 3/4 teaspoon olive oil (extra virgin)
  • 2 teaspoon white wine vinegar
  • Caster sugar, pinch
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to season
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Cook barley in a small saucepan of simmering water over a medium heat for 20 to 25 minutes or until almost tender and then add peas and broad beans and cook for a further 3 to 4 minutes or until just tender and then drain and then rinse under cold water until cook and drain and set aside.

  • Step 2: Meanwhile, heat a small non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat.

  • Step 3: Spray lamb with cooking spray and add to the pan and reduce heat to medium and cook for 4 minutes, turning occasionally, or until just cooked.

  • Step 4: Rest for 5 minutes and then thinly diagonally slice.

  • Step 5: To make the dressing, whisk all the ingredients together in a small bowl.

  • Step 6: Combine barley mixture, lamb and mint in a shallow serving bowl and drizzle over dressing and sprinkle with feta and serve.

  • TIP - Try replacing the lamb with chicken breast, the mint with basil or parley and the feta with low-fat ricotta


Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • Olive oil cooking spray

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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