This lemony lentil salad is super simple, super tasty, and super healthful. It's also super basic, and easy to dress up with whatever seasonal veggies you picked up at the marketsee the many optional additions listed below to mix and match as you like. While most types of lentils work here, and i like to use tiny green french lentils when i have them on hand, as you can see from the picture, the more common brown lentils work very nicely, too. Softer, hulled red lentils are trickier in salads. If you do decide to use them, be careful not to overcook them. The wonderful thing about this basic salad is that you can enliven it by adding optional items, such as chopped hard-boiled eggs, shaved or thinly sliced fennel, crumbled feta cheese or cojita, and toasted walnuts or pine nuts.