Ingredients · Beans & lentils

Red lentils

A 60g dry portion cooks into a bowlful with around 14g of protein and over 4mg of iron.

Nutrition per portion

Keep it well: Keep dried lentils in an airtight jar out of sunlight and they last a year easily.

Reach for it when the week brings:

Put it to work

Red lentils simmered to silk with turmeric and garlic, folded with spinach and cool yogurt.

45 min 22g protein

Cumin-roast squash over quick red lentil dal with yogurt and crispy onions.

45 min 20g protein

Red lentils in a tomato-butter masala finished with yogurt; makhani depth in 35 minutes.

35 min 21g protein

Whole roasted aubergine halves collapsing over garlicky red lentil dal with crispy onions.

45 min 20g protein

A warming blitzed soup of carrots and red lentils with a harissa-yogurt swirl.

40 min 13g protein