World, meet my new love: Lentil flatbread. Now Socca (chickpea flatbread) will always have a special place in my heart, but after eating it a good 4+ times a week for, well, many months…it was time for a change. This “bread” is cheap, easy and beyond healthy.
Prep Work
Prep your lentils. By this, I mean leave them in a bowl of water overnight, rinse ’em, and then stick whatever you aren’t using in the fridge for later. As to what kind of lentils–I am using the vaguely labeled store brand “lentils.” If you want to be fancy and get a specific color like green or red, go for it!
Lentil Flatbread
- 2T chia seeds (I’m sure flax would work just as well, I just haven’t tried it)
- 1/2 C soaked lentils
- 2/3 to 3/4 C water
Run it all through a blender. Get a lightly oiled frying pan hot and pour in the lentil mix, spreading it around in an even layer. Cook, flip, cook.
Serve with dips, saucy Indian dishes, salads or just enjoy plain.
If you want to kick it up, add salt, pepper, curry powder, hot sauce or something else exciting to the “batter.”
Nutritional stats:
If you eat the whole thing yourself (and trust me, that’s not a problem), you’re getting a whopping 24g of protein and 33g of fiber. You aren’t going to find stats that good in a bar or cereal any time soon. Balance it out with pile of veggies and you have an amazing complete meal.
ForgottenBeast 
This looks EPIC! I like lentils but to me, they seem so booooring. This recipe looks like an awesome way to mix it up! I bet it would be awesome topped with some hummus and olives.
Olives! Yes! Hmm, I think I have a sketchily old jar of kalamatas…I know what’s going on my next shopping list 😀
I love lentils! But I’ve never thought to use them that way. That’s so cool! (I just ate a vegetable and lentil soup, YUM)
Flax makes me feel weird. I don’t know if that’s normal, but it happens to my sister as well. Maybe we’re just weird, because I see it in tons of vegan recipes. Anyway, I really want to try this! I’ve been getting into lentils lately big time.
I’ve never had a problem with flax, but I can’t handle stevia, and people eat that stuff left and right, so who knows, food, intestines. If you have access to chia seeds, they’re a perfect 1:1 replacement for anything calling for flax–AND they have better protein!
For some reason I’m not sure if you can get chia seeds in Europe? I’ve heard people talking about not being able to find them here for some reason, and I’ve never seen them, although I’ve never actively looked. Europeans are weird about things sometimes. Like at Whole Foods in London, a lot of American products have stickers clearly labeling that they contain GM ingredients which Euro products don’t have. Anyway, I’ll see if Whole Foods has chia seeds because I’ve heard so much about them!
This sounds delicious, Allie and couldn’t be much easier! Do you prepare the one with the chick peas the same way?? I’ve got to try this!
I love flatbreads, and this is the time of year I cook with lentils! thanks for this, my dear, it looks fantastic!
This looks sooooo tasty, and it’s so unique too! I will totally have to try this out at some point 🙂
You can make lentils into bread?! Holy wow I had no idea – so creative!
I think I could manage my lentils like that!
Wow this is such an easy yet innovative recipe! I can’t wait to try this, and get experimental with toppings!
Ooo, I want to see what you come up with!
That looks amazing. I totally could see eating it 4 days in a row!
This post reminded me that I’m reunited with my crock pot and I can make lentils martinique again – WIN!
YES! Glad you love the recipe…and your crockpot. I don’t know what I’d do if I was separated from mine!
This looks delicious! I had no idea lentils could be made into bread.
Could this get any easier and healthier? I love it!
The flatbread looks really good and I love having a new idea to use my chia seeds. Aren’t chia seeds the best?
It didn’t take much convincing for me to hop on over and check this out! I would never have thought to make something like this on my own and I can’t wait to give it a try!!
Ooh, this looks great. I have so many bags of lentils hiding away in the kitchen, I might have to make some of this!
That sounds awesome! I’m always looking for new ways to eat lentils, I’ll definitely be giving this a go!