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Lentils Recipes

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Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup with lentils, onion and garlic — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Soups

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup

Dal is an Indian home-style dish of split pulses; this one is a pourable soup of red lentils (masoor dal) simmered with turmeric until they fall apart. It is finished with a tadka: cumin seeds, onion, garlic, ginger and tomato fried in oil and stirred in at the end. Serve it with chapati or basmati rice.

30 min380 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Lentil Vegetable Soup with lentils, carrots and tomatoes — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Soups

Lentil Vegetable Soup

Red lentils with carrots, celery, onion, tomatoes and cumin in a simple broth. Lentils dissolve into the soup as they cook, giving it body without any blending. About 14g of fiber per bowl. Gets better the next day.

45 min310 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Lentil Bolognese with red lentils, crushed tomatoes and tomato paste — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lentil Bolognese

Red lentils simmered with soffritto, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, and red wine into a thick, deeply savory pasta sauce. No meat, no substitutes — just lentils doing what they do best when you give them enough time and heat. The sauce works because red lentils dissolve into the tomato base, thickening it while adding body and protein. Walnuts, added near the end, give the sauce a slight richness and something to chew on. The whole thing takes about 40 minutes and tastes better the next day.

45 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan

Vegan Shepherd's Pie with lentils, mushrooms and potatoes — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Vegan Shepherd's Pie

A savory lentil, mushroom, and vegetable filling in a herb-thickened gravy, topped with smooth, buttery mashed potato and baked until the surface is golden and slightly crisp. This is the kind of dish that makes people forget it's vegan — the filling has the depth and weight of a meat braise because of how the tomato paste, mushrooms, and herbs are cooked together, and the potato topping behaves exactly like the original. Shepherd's pie takes time but most of it is hands-off. The filling can be made days ahead. The assembled unbaked pie keeps in the fridge for two days before it goes in the oven.

70 min420 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Harira with chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes — Morocco recipe

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Soups

Harira

Harira is a Moroccan tomato soup with chickpeas, lentils, a little lamb or beef and plenty of fresh herbs, thickened at the end with a flour-and-water slurry called tedouira. The name comes from the Arabic word for silk, after the velvety texture the tedouira gives it. Every Moroccan family has its own version, but the spine is always the same: tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, fresh herbs, ginger, and warm spices. It is especially popular during Ramadan, when it is served at iftar alongside dates, hard-boiled eggs, and chebakia pastries. It is also eaten through the rest of the year, as a starter or as a meal in itself. A meatless version is common too.

110 min320 kcal6 serves

Misir Wot (Ethiopian Red Lentil Stew) with red split lentils, niter kibbeh and berbere spice — Ethiopia recipe

🇪🇹EthiopiaAdvanced

Soups

Misir Wot (Ethiopian Red Lentil Stew)

Misir wot is an Ethiopian stew of split red lentils simmered with slowly cooked onions, berbere spice and niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter) until the lentils collapse and the pot turns thick and creamy. It's the dish that appears on every Ethiopian vegetarian platter, scooped up with injera. On fasting days it is made with oil instead of the spiced butter. The flavor is hot, earthy, and faintly bitter from the berbere spice blend. This recipe serves 6. Rest it for 10 minutes before serving; it is better the next day.

85 min310 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

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