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Lentil Croquettes

Ingredients

  • 100 g lentils (Puy lentils work best)
  • 200 ml water
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 50 g carrot, finely diced
  • 50 g celery, finely diced
  • 50 g leek, finely diced
  • 50 g onions, finely diced
  • 50 g tomato, diced
  • 10 ml tamari (soy sauce)
  • cumin, curry, pepper, grated lemon
  • peel
  • 30 g finely ground bread crumbs
  • 1⁄2 egg
  • 5 g whole grain spelt flour
  • 5 g olive oil

Instructions

  1. Cook the lentils together with the bay leaf until soft. There should be no liquid left.
  2. Slightly fry the vegetables in a pan and add them to the boiled lentils. Season to taste with soy sauce, cumin, curry, pepper, lemon peel.
  3. Form little burgers or balls.
  4. Mix the egg with the flour, dip the burgers (balls) inside and afterwards roll them into the bread crumbs.
  5. Set them onto a baking tray. And spray some olive oil onto the top.
  6. Bake them for about ten minutes in a 160°C hot oven.

Story behind the recipe

I am a Chef at the SlowFood Chef Alliance, and I work in the Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic. As a fasting clinic and teaching clinic for nutritional medicine, the health value of food has a very special significance.

About Hubert Hohler DE

I am a Chef at the SlowFood Chef Alliance, and I work in the Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic. As a fasting clinic and teaching clinic for nutritional medicine, the health value of food has a very special significance.

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