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Turmeric Lentil Fritters Tomato Greens Bowl with Tahini Dill Sauce. Baked Seedy Golden Lentil fritters with greens, tomatoes and a tahini sauce make an easy Lunch bowl. Vegan Nut-free Soy-free Recipe. Easily Glutenfree.
These seedy lentil fritters are amazingly easy. Cook the lentils with turmeric and spices, fold in some spinach or greens, add seeds like chia, flax, sesame or hemp or other of choice, chill, scoop into bite size fritters, bake and done.
The lentils when cooked make a wet mixture, which bakes up perfectly into crisp on the outside Golden fritters, soft and flavorful on the inside. I use a cookie scoop to make the fritters as it takes just 5 minutes without any mess. Tahini dill sauce complements these fritters incredibly well. Some juicy tomatoes and baby greens make this bowl an amazing meal. I eat up those fritters right off the baking sheet with the dill sauce, they are so good! so you might want to double the recipe. You can also make wraps with these life a falafel wrap. Some crunchy lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, fritters and sauce in a warm pita bread.Â
If you make these. do let me know in the comments how you liked them.
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Cook the onion and garlic. Add spices and lentils and roast for a bit.Â
Add spinach and fold in.Â
Add seeds and mix in.Â
Chill for 15 mins. Add breadcrumbs if needed. Use a scoop to place equal size balls on parchment lined sheet.
Bake, cool and serve over a bowl of greens, tomatoes, cucumbers with tahini dill sauce. Â
Turmeric Lentil Fritters Tomato Bowl with Tahini Dill Sauce
Ingredients Â
Seedy Lentil Fritters:
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/2 cup onion
- 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/3 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/3 tsp or more cayenne
- 1/2 cup red lentils, masoor dal, washed and drained
- 1.5 cups water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp parsley , or 1 tsp dried
- 1/2 cup packed chopped spinach
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp flax seed meal , or more chia seeds
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, or use flour, glutenfree breadcrumbs or flour for gf
Tahini Dill Sauce:
- 1/4 cup tahini
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp dried dill
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cayenne
Bowl
- Greens or lettuce
- Chopped tomatoes & cucumbers
InstructionsÂ
- Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and a pinch of salt. Cook until translucent. 4 to 5 mins. Stir occasionally.
- Add all the spices and drained lentils. mix and cook for a minute.
- Add salt and water and cook for 11 minutes partially covered. Uncover, fold in spinach and parlsey and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until the lentils are cooked and all the liquid is absorbed. The mixture will be soft. Taste and adjust salt and heat.
- Add chia seeds, flax seeds sesame or hemp seeds and mix in. Chill the lentil mixture for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 425 deg F / 220ºc. Mix in 1/4 cup breadcrumbs in the lentil mixture. If it is too sticky, add some flour. The mixture will be soft but should get easily shaped into soft balls without too much sticking or squishing.
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop the lentil mixture onto parchment lined baking sheet. Spray oil on the balls. I usually sprinkle some sesame seeds on the fritters. Bake for 20 minutes.
- Blend everything under tahini sauce. Taste and adjust salt and tang (lemon). For a garlicky dressing mix in 1/4 tsp garlic powder.
- Assemble the bowl with greens, juicy tomatoes or cucumbers, and as many Lentil fritters as you like. Drizzle dressing generously.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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what can i use instead of tahini?
For the dressing? Use any other dressing like vegan ranch
The flavors in this are fantastic, with or without the tahini sauce. I love it!
yay! thanks for popping in and taking the time to review
Eating this right now. It’s REALLY good. If you don’t like heat, back off the cayenne a bit in the dressing. Thanks, Richa!
I made this recipe today and they are very good, hot or cold. My carnivore husband wanted to try and he likes them too; he even suggested to make a flatbread with the dough to use it as a pizza base. I didn’t have tahini, I made a sauce with coconut plain yogurt, salt, garlic powder and fresh dill. I had the fritters with a similar salad as yours, but I added red cabbage and red onion. The plate looked very pretty. I will definitely make this recipe often and I may trying using the dough in a sandwich once it has been chilled.
I was looking for a way to incorporate the health benefits of lentils into my vegetarian diet… BUT .. I’m not a chef at ALL – I can barely make a bowl of pasta- but I really enjoyed making this and enjoyed eating it even more (I put it and it’s fixings in a low carb tortilla).
I also am not a huge fan of onions and garlic, but still find that they’re are necessary for a good taste in most recipes- so I just minimized the quantity a lot (2 cloves of garlic and a bit less than 1/4 cup of onion: I actually used shallot. ) I also minced both other these so I wouldn’t get overwhelmed by a taste a large chuck of either. Haha
It worked out super well and I will definitely be adding this to my meal rotation 🙂
lentil fritters are more advanced than pasta. good stuff. Thank you Jennifer
I made these for dinner the other night using green lentils, because that is what I had on hand. They were delicious! My husband, who is not a fan of lentils, even liked them and said I should make them, again.
That’s awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!
I made this as a loaf. It was easy and flavourful!
I just made these for dinner tonight, I doubled the recipe and wish that I tripled it. Barely enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow. So tasty!!!
awesome!
Hi, this sounds very promising but wondering if it can be made as a loaf instead?
yes, the fritter mixture can be baked into a loaf. Bake for 30 mins, then check
Could I substitute the toasted sesame seeds with more chia seeds and flax? Or something else?
yes add more chia seeds or just omit