Fried Lentils

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This look turns lentils into thing much similar nuts: crunchy and addictive arsenic a snack, but besides bully connected salads and grains and, arsenic cookbook writer Mollie Katzen suggests, layered betwixt beets and yogurt successful a savory parfait.

The lentils request to soak for 1 hour; they tin beryllium drained and near to adust for a fewer hours oregon adjacent overnight. Store the fried lentils uncovered astatine country somesthesia for up to a day; freshen them up successful a 200-degree oven for 5 to 10 minutes.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24 (makes 1 1/2 cups)

  • 1 cupful dried lentils, preferably smaller red, yellow, achromatic beluga oregon French du Puy
  • Safflower oil, olive lipid oregon grapeseed oil, for frying
  • Salt

Nutritional Facts

Per tablespoon

  • Calories

    40

  • Fat

    1 g

  • Carbohydrates

    5 g

  • Sodium

    15 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Heart of the Plate," by Mollie Katzen (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published January 7, 2014

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Updated March 14, 2026

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