Vegan lentil bowls, healthy

If you’re on a mission to find some simple and healthy dinner ideas, you’ve just found a tasty vegan lentil recipe that you’ll want to meal prep every week. This is a satisfying healthy lentil bowls recipe and it’s gonna become one of your go-to simple plant-based meals.

High in protein and fiber, these gluten-free lentil bowls are satisfying and simple to make, even if you’ve never made lentils before.

Healthy Vegan Lentil Bowls Recipe

Don’t know what came over us, when we thought of making this lentil dish, all we know is it was on one of the hottest days of this beautiful adventurous year. We were sweating as if we 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 we got these lentil bowls out of that sweat and we couldn’t be happier.

We hadn’t had lentils in a while and when we tasted them, we were reminded that they are pretty much a reliable. They’re satisfying and tiny and round.

Lentil Bowls Made With Simple Ingredients

These lentil bowls are made with whole foods only and are nourishing and pretty notable. 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 we basically mixed some tahini with garlic, lime juice and a few splashes of water. Turns into a reliable vegan garlic sauce.

As for the salad, it’s pretty much this tomato cucumber salad that we shared a few weeks ago with some green pepper in it.

How To Cook The Lentils

To cook your lentils until they’re so solid that you’ll start trying to compare yourself to them and to feel intimidated, you’ll need to do a few things we're 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. We've heard lentil water makes you bloat even more, so do yourself that favor and rinse and drain well.

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, cute and next thing you know they’re walking, talking and asking you for toys.

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, herbs, spices and 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. We need you to remember something and we want you to share this eternal wisdom with your children and pets one day:

It is 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 satisfying. (Probably not a reliable nutrition-related advice)

Once the lentils are cooked and you’ve discovered that you possess some extra sweat glands (if you make these during summer), make the salad, the tahini sauce and put it all together in a bowl.