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Last updated on June 29th, 2022 at 03:04 pm
If you’re on a mission to find some easy and healthy dinner ideas, you’ve just found a healthy vegan dinner recipe that you’ll want to meal prep every week. This is a delicious healthy vegan lentil recipe and it’s gonna become one of your go-to easy plant-based recipes. High in protein and fiber, these gluten free vegan lentil bowls are satisfying and super easy to make, even if you’ve never made lentils before.
Healthy Vegan Lentil Bowls Recipe
Don’t know what came over me, when I thought of making this lentil dish, all I know is it was on one of the hottest days of this beautiful adventurous year. I was sweating as if I had run for 5 minutes straight. And if you’ve ever seen this red face after a run, you’d know that’s a lot of sweat and it’s not pretty. However, it was all worth it, because I got these bowls out of that sweat and I couldn’t be happier.
I hadn’t had lentils in a while and when I tasted them, I was reminded that lentils are pretty much the best. They’re delicious and tiny and round.
Lentil Bowls Made With Simple Ingredients
These lentil bowls are made with whole foods only and are nourishing and pretty amazing. They’re spicy, but not too spicy, just intriguing. Here’s what’s inside:
- Lentils
- Tomato
- Garlic
- Olive oil
- Cumin
- Coriander
- Turmeric
- Mint
- Crushed red pepper
- Onion
For the sauce I basically mixed some tahini with garlic, lime juice and a few splashes of water. Turns into the best vegan garlic sauce.
As for the salad, it’s pretty much this tomato cucumber salad that I shared a few weeks ago with some green pepper in it .
How To Cook The Lentils
To cook your lentils until they’re so perfect that you’ll start trying to compare yourself to them and to feel super intimidated, you’ll need to do a few things I’m pretty sure you don’t do every day.
First you’re gonna have to travel back in time to the day before and soak the lentils in water. Then you’re gonna come back to here and now and remove that water. I’ve heard lentil water makes you fart even more, so do yourself that favor and rinse and drain like those lentils are super dirty and have been to the grocery store without a mask.
Now that you’ve taken all of these precautions you’ll discover that the lentils tripled their size. They’re pretty much like babies. They’re tiny, helpless and cute and next thing you know they’re walking, talking and asking you for money.
Take a non-stick pan and add some olive oil to it, because non-stick cannot be trusted. Then add some chopped onion and chopped tomatoes, the herbs, spices and next the lentils.
Add some filtered water to cover the lentils, cover the pan with a lid and let the lentils cook for about 15 minutes at medium high. Once all done, add in some spinach, some more garlic and olive oil. Your lentils are ready.
Not, so fast. I need you to remember something and I want you to share this eternal wisdom with your children and pets one day:
It is very, very very very important to add salt when you’re starting to cook your lentils. Otherwise they’ll taste like nothing. Like sadness in a bowl. Like they’re empty and have never been loved. Salt = the magical ingredient that turns bland food into something delicious. (Probably not the best nutrition-related advice)
Once the lentils are cooked and you’ve discovered that you obviously possess some extra sweat glands, make the salad, the tahini sauce and put it all together in a bowl.
I hope you enjoy this simple, nourishing lentil recipe!