Total time: 15 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 0 min • Serves: 1 • Difficulty: Easy

Enjoy this as a knife-and-fork salad or spoon the lentil mixture into the lettuce leaves for lettuce cups. For the lentils, you can use a canned variety or cook your own. Dried lentils don’t require soaking, but you will need to rinse them and pick through them, removing and shriveled lentils or debris. Green and brown lentils cook quickly and don’t become mushy when cooked, while red, orange, and yellow lentils do tend to become mushy when cooked, making them better suited for soups. The green beans are served raw in these lettuce cups, but you can roast or sauté them if you would like a softer bite.