A question that I get asked so often is "How do I cook with lentils?!" This question has inspired me to get creative and start thinking up easy, simple and nutritious recipe's to prepare lentils or any type of legumes for a meal.
So, today for lunch I got creative and this was the end result : a warm lentil and vegetable salad!
Recipe:
- 1 cup of lentils (dried or tinned)
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 shallot
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- Chili, pepper and salt to season.
I cooked the lentils, shallot and garlic in a saucepan over the stove for roughly five minutes. Then I poured the lentils into my bowl, stirred through the spinach and chopped carrot, seasoned with pepper and chili flakes and look at that! A quick and easy nutritious lunch! These ingredient's were the only ingredient's I had in the house today so if you want to make this, please add as many vegetables as you like to the recipe. I will definitely be adding broccoli and sweet potato next time!
This meal contained about 320 calories, 18 grams of protein, 50 grams of carbohydrates, 6 grams of fat and many essential nutrients such as potassium, calcium, iron, Vitamin A and sodium. It's also a great way to add more serves of vegetables to your daily intake. We should be consuming five serves of vegetables each day as the current guideline stands and there is roughly 3 serves of veggies in this meal, only two to go!
Hope this recipe makes it into your lunchbox!
Lisa xx
