Baked Curry Lentil Cakes Recipe with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce - Cookin Canuck (2024)

This Baked Curry Lentil Cakes recipe makes for a satisfying, but light vegan meal. The roasted red pepper sauce is so good it could be eaten with a spoon! Thank you to USA Pulses and Pulse Canada for helping me to share this recipe with you.

One hundred points if you can tell me what pulses are! When I first heard that the United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses, I did a double-take. Pulses? It turns out that they are a category of legumes that includes dry peas, lentils, beans and chickpeas. In other words, things I like to eat any way I can get them - in salads, in soups, as appetizers, in chili.

That wasn't always the case. In fact, I'd have to say that until my early twenties, I turned my nose up at almost anything to do with the pulse family, unless it was pureed into a big bowl of hummus and accompanied by some chips and a beer (once I hit the legal age, of course). I've always had nothing but love for hummus!

I don't know if it was the or the that did the trick, but it didn't take long for me to fall in love with all-things-pulses. Of course, I didn't know that's what they were called. Instead, I would declare, "I love all beanspeaslentilschickpeas." Calling them pulses is so much easier.

As part of the 2016 International Year of the Pulse, Pulse USA and Pulse Canada are encouraging everyone to take the Pulse Pledge (I've already pledged myself), which is a pledge to eat pulses at least once per week. With all of the known health benefits of these superfoods, it's kind of a no-brainer!

For this recipe, I used red lentils, which are the fastest cooking of the lentils. They are just little guys and don't require soaking beforehand. However, I do recommend rinsing the lentils and checking them for any debris, such as small stones. While red lentils are often used for dals (or dhals), an Indian food staple, I chose to incorporate them into some protein-packed lentil cakes, which are kept even healthier by baking rather than pan-frying. But I couldn't resist adding some curry powder. Red lentils just seem to beg for it!

The lentil cakes are topped with an easy roasted red pepper sauce, whipped up in the food processor or blender in just a few minutes. You could certainly use jarred roasted peppers, but it's really easy to make your own roasted peppers...cheaper, too! The sauce is so good that you'll be tempted to spread it on sandwiches and even toss it with pasta.

Serve these up with a green salad for a light lunch or dinner. And then, start brainstorming the next meal you'll make with pulses!

Other healthy recipe with pulses:

Cookin' Canuck's
Cookin' Canuck's
Natural Girl Modern World's Beet & Lentil Salad with Herbed Goat Cheese
Happy & Harried's Green Gram Curry
The Al's Kitchen's Savory Chickpea Pancakes

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