Smoked Salmon Living Lentil Bowl

Smoked Salmon Living Lentil Bowl Recipe

Smoked Salmon Living Lentil Bowl Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

Lentils are a brilliant low-cost source of vegetarian protein. Use them to make this deliciously healthy salad.


Servings

2

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 small brown onion, chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 50g brown lentils, rinsed
  • 2 cups chicken stock or filtered water
  • 1 tbsp ground cumin
  • 1 handful coriander, chopped
  • 2 tbsp capers, rinsed
  • 100g baby spinach leaves
  • 100g smoked salmon
  • ½ cup snow pea sprouts
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste (optional)
  • Squeeze lemon juice

Method


  • Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and ginger and cook for 3–4 mins until softened. Add lentils, stock or water and cumin. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 20–25 mins until lentils are tender and liquid has been absorbed. Stir through coriander and capers.
  • Arrange all ingredients in serving bowls, season with grind of pepper (if using) and finish with squeeze of lemon juice.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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