Mind blowing lentil salad dip

This healthy lentil recipe beats every dream of lentils we ever had – it’s healthy, high-fiber, satisfying, simple and soooo unbelievably solid! We call it a lentil salad dip, but if you’ve got a better name for this satisfying creation – let us know please!

Okay, okay okay. So it’s 726 degrees out there. And by out there we don’t mean hell. We mean outside. Nature, outside, not computer…out.

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And the last thing you probably want to deal with is a giant pot of steaming hot lentils, right?

Tell us about it.

Remember last week when We were talking about leftovers and everyone thought “WTF is happening here”?

Well, we had just cooked that giant pot of lentils and wanted to feed it to the seagulls because we realized “Ummm. It’s too hot for that ish. We can’t eat it two days in a row.” we don’t even know what ish means, we see Beyoncé uses it. Issues?

Btw. Last week a HUGE freakin seagull attacked us, grabbed the pizza we were holding out of our hand, scratched our finger and flew away, before we could even protect myself or spit on him. We just hope we won’t get any flesh eating infection like this guy, for now we're fine. And we thought pizza rat was something special. If we wasn’t scared like a rabbit, we'd probably think it was funny.

At least everyone else thought so.

Those seagulls are criminals.

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Anyway, writing that ****genius**** leftover post inspired us to do something with our leftovers.

And boy, we've never been glad-der in our life.

We were imagining a dip or a salad or a hummus – anything that we didn’t need to eat warm.

We did a fast google search for lentil dip and they all looked good, but we saw one picture that made the saliva stream into our mouth and then…naturally out of it. (you can see the picture and recipe here)

Some sparks flew everywhere and it was done.

We didn’t read the recipe, we're sure it’s something completely different and satisfying.

But that picture…We just couldn’t get it out of our head for hours.

We fell in love, people.

So we made this healthy lentil salad dip that same day using the leftover lentils we initially wanted to throw out.

We did cook the lentils once again with some fresh tomatoes and basil, we let them cool off a bit and then added the fresh stuff – herbs, vegetables and feta cheese. This was soooo good. We toasted a few slices of bread – even though we didn’t need to, and ate it for two days.

So meal prep?

Yes, it can.

But you might want to put a little more lentils. We wouldn’t double the recipe necessarily, but just add some more of everything – this ain’t baking, you know? You don’t need to use EXACT measurements.

And we wouldn’t keep this healthy lentil salad dip longer than 3 days in the fridge.

Work with what you’ve got

You also don’t need to use the lentil recipe we had prepared, cook your lentils with some salt, add some spice if you want and then cook with the tomatoes for a few minutes.

This recipe is solid to use leftover lentils – you will so much appreciate this. If you’d like you can use our spicy turmeric lentils recipe – it’s tasty and would do good here.

Health and Beauty Benefits

So this lentil salad dip was so tasty, we wouldn’t even care if it wasn’t healthy. But, um..it is. And it makes us feel even better about it.

Here are the main characters:

• Lentils (obviously) – high-fiber, good source of protein, good for weight loss (eat 3-4 times a week) and reduce inflammatory markers

• Tomatoes – rich in lycopene – an antioxidant shown to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer (tomatoes are one of the 8 foods you need to eat for healthy skin!)

• Parsley – good source of vitamin C + caratenoids (powerful antioxidant combo) and protein (it’s one of them high-protein, low-carb vegan foods We talked about here)

• Green bell peppers – rich in vitamin C, which an antioxidant and is also important for fat oxidation and production of collagen (bell peppers are one of the 8 foods you need to eat for healthy skin!)