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Lentil Cutlets with Green Sauce
Healthy, protein-rich lentil cutlets that can replace meat, served with a fresh spinach and avocado sauce.
From YouTube · Oct 5, 2025
Healthy, protein-rich lentil cutlets that can replace meat, served with a fresh spinach and avocado sauce.
10 min, plus several hours or overnight soaking
Prep time
20 min
Cook time
30 min
Total time
8 cutlets
Yield
Ingredients
18 ingredientsAdjust servings
Ingredients update with servings
- LENTIL CUTLETS
- 200g dry lentils
- Cold water, for soaking
- 1 large egg
- 250g courgette, grated
- Salt, to taste
- 2 tbsp psyllium husk
- 4 spring onion greens, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, finely chopped
- 100g mozzarella, grated
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- Vegetable oil, for greasing the hands
- Olive oil, for frying
- GREEN SAUCE
- 80g spinach
- 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt
- 1 avocado
- 3 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
Method
16 steps- Place the dry lentils in a bowl, cover generously with cold water and soak for several hours or overnight.
- Drain and rinse the soaked lentils thoroughly.
- Transfer the lentils to a blending jug, add the egg and blend with an immersion blender until mostly smooth.
- Squeeze as much excess liquid as possible from the grated courgette.
- Combine the lentil mixture with the courgette and season with salt.
- Leave the mixture to stand for 5–10 minutes.
- Add the psyllium husk, spring onion greens, dill, grated mozzarella and minced garlic.
- Mix thoroughly until evenly combined.
- Lightly grease your hands with vegetable oil and shape the mixture into 8 cutlets.
- Heat a thin layer of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
- Fry the cutlets in batches until golden brown on both sides and cooked through.
- For the sauce, add the spinach to a pan with a little olive oil and cook until wilted.
- Transfer the spinach to a blending jug.
- Add the Greek yoghurt, avocado, basil and lemon juice.
- Season with salt and black pepper, then blend until smooth.
- Serve the lentil cutlets hot with the green sauce.
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