Recipe for Lebanese Lentil Salad with Garlic, Cumin, Mint, and Parsley

I'm still experimenting with new ideas for South Beach Diet friendly Thanksgiving Recipes, but you can't eat nothing but Thanksgiving side dishes every day even if you're blogging about them, and this Lebanese Lentil Salad is something I'd happily eat all year round. I served this as a side dish with the Pan-Fried and Roasted Pork Chops with Apricot-Mustard Sauce, and I think it would also make a great take-to-work lunch salad. The recipe was adapted from Garlicky Lebanese Lentil Salad in Saveur October 2010, but after I made their version the first time, I changed the proportions a bit for a result with less oil and more lemon to fit my lemon-loving tastebuds.

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