{"id":17469,"date":"2018-02-02T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/?p=17469"},"modified":"2018-03-09T04:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:38:01","slug":"lentils-spinach-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/?p=17469","title":{"rendered":"Lentils \/ Spinach Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my lovely readers today I have for you another nice and yummy dish which came to me one morning in the gym.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019s perfect for this winter time, and I think lentils are very powerful for our bodies, good circulation, keeping the stomach full and in fact, the high fiber and protein are definitely added benefits.<br \/>\nSo when exactly did I get this inspiration? I\u2019m working closely with my personal trainer Gilberto and one day I was listening carefully as he told me about his clients, about nutrition and protein in particular. \u00a0I got a simple vision in my mind and I could clearly see this recipe in my kitchen. I\u2019m repeating myself, but it is really easy to make and another important thing is that it\u2019s completely up to you guys which side dish you would like to serve with these balls.\u00a0 It could be a small salad with dressing, tomato sauce or just a light herb dressing. Seriously, just follow your intuition, but of course, I\u2019ll tell you what I made it with, I chose smoked garlic, roasted red peppers and tomato puree sauce with salt, pepper, and a little bit of maple syrup.<br \/>\nI made each ball around 50g but if you prefer bigger ones, go for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17471\" src=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"969\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky1.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"im\"><strong>Recipe:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>150g dark lentils<br \/>\n340g baby spinach leaf<br \/>\n1 clove of garlic<br \/>\n120g carrots<br \/>\n1 teaspoon of smoked paprika powder<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon of mixed sesame seeds<br \/>\n10g of hemp seeds<br \/>\n65g gluten-free breadcrumbs<br \/>\n<span class=\"im\">40g buckwheat flour<br \/>\noil<br \/>\nsalt &amp; pepper\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17470\" src=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"932\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cocka1.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"im\">Method:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I would recommend you soak the lentils for around 4 hours. In this time you can prep and peel the carrots, grate them and put them into your large salad bowl. Add the already prepped garlic (peel and chop the clove) and also the breadcrumbs, flour, seeds, and paprika.<br \/>\nThe next step is to use a colander to wash the spinach. Shake the excess water off and then cook with olive oil in a pot for 6 mins \u2019til soft. Remove the liquid from the pot and add the spinach to the salad bowl.<br \/>\nThe last step is to dry the lentils after having soaked them for 4 hours and cooked them until soft. They will not take long to cook once the water is boiling but keep an eye on them. Once they are done, either let them cool down or cool them down with cool water,\u00a0 before adding to your salad bowl. Mix the mixture very well, add salt and pepper, and you are ready to make it into balls. Once the balls are ready, heat your oven to gas 4 or 180C and fill your nonstick pan with quite a bit of olive, or any oil for cooking. Sear the balls in the pan for 6 min before moving to your gastro pot. Finally, cook these in the oven for another 18- 20min and they\u2019re ready for your stomach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17477\" src=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1085\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky7.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1085px) 100vw, 1085px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17472\" src=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lentilky2.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my lovely readers today I have for you another nice and yummy dish which came to me one morning in the gym.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019s perfect for this winter time, and I think lentils are very powerful for our bodies, good circulation, keeping the stomach full and in fact, the high fiber and protein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":2201,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[388,393,206,170,365,186,17,130,169,392,107,167,123,223,193,191,217,168],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17480,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions\/17480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenrabbitkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}