Lettuce wraps stuffed with healthy red lentils, potatoes, carrots, and lots of curry spice. They’re a healthy, hearty vegan meal that’s also gluten free!
How about a delicious and nutritious Meatless Monday dish to start off the week? Well, today you are in luck! Emily from Zen and Spice is here to share her curried red lentil and potato lettuce wraps recipe and it looks amazing!
Hi readers of Cotter Crunch! My name is Emily, and I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and healthy living blogger over at Zen & Spice. I’m a food lover and nutrition enthusiast who has a fascination for cooking, gardening, practicing yoga and embracing the mind body connection. On my blog you’ll find healthy recipes, motivation strategies, meditation tips, and things that make me happy. I live in Dallas, Texas with my boyfriend, Nick, and our five-month-old schnoodle puppy.
I have been a huge fan of Lindsay’s blog for a long time now! I love her fitness tips— always inspires me to get back in the gym or to try new workouts. Her gluten free recipes are fantastic and I do recommend my celiac patients to visit her site! I am happy to be here today sharing a recipe and getting to know Lindsay’s readers!
One of my major goals for 2015 is to eat more holistically & mindfully. To me, this means making more meals meatless (to save money and help out the environment), and more meals gluten free (having IBS makes digesting gluten difficult). Beans & lentils are cheap, fiber rich, and easy to make! I’ve been on a mission to learn how to cook beans and lentils and make them taste amazing. Curried red lentil lettuce wraps are definitely tasty.
While developing this lettuce wraps recipe for Cotter Crunch, I had a couple different ideas for the lettuce wrap filling. I knew I wanted to use red lentils, but wasn’t sure what else to combine with. Well, funny story. We recently adopted a little schnoodle puppy (he’s five months old now) and I wanted to take him to the dog park for the first time (what does this have to do with lettuce wraps? hang tight!).
I knew there was a dog park down the street by our apartment, but wasn’t sure how far down the street it was. So, I had the bright idea of walking there to “get some steps in”. Long story short, it ended up being a 3 1/2 mile walk and it wasn’t until we were half way there I realized this. It was too late to turn around, so I just kept going. Don’t worry, I held the little guy the whole time or else he probably wouldn’t have made it to the dog park.
Anyway, after a SEVEN mile round trip (I contemplated calling a taxi for a ride back but thought I’d look like an idiot dropping me off right down the street), we finally made it back to the apartment and I was FAMISHED. That was the night I was taste testing the curry lettuce wraps recipe and I thought, lentils and lettuce are not going to hold me over right now. So I added a bunch of diced potatoes and carrots to bulk it up. For some reason, walking seven miles prompted me to season with curry and the apartment smelled heavenly. I’ll just say I ate my fill of these lettuce wraps and was quite satisfied! Then I took a bath and went straight to bed.
This was one of the first recipes where I’ve used my curry seasoning. I’m looking forward to exploring other ways to use it! If you have a good curry recipe, leave a link to it in a comment below.
I hope you enjoy these lettuce wraps!
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These wraps look so delicious!! Love the combo of curried red lentils and potatoes – healthy and satisfying!
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These look oh so delicious! I admittedly have never cooked with curry, but these might give me the motivation to try!
oh my gosh, you will love it Lauren! curry is so good!
Oh, these look great! I don’t cook with lentils much – not because I don’t like them, but because I just haven’t though to purchase some! This is going on my to-cook list 🙂
girl, get some! i know you’d make some fabulous dishes with lentils!
oh wow these look fab and I can’t wait to make them! Right up my alley for sure. Thanks so much for joining in on Meatless Monday!
Thanks for reading! 🙂 Let me know if you try them!
thanks for hosting!
These look amazing, but I don’t like lentils. I’ve tried them, and the texture is just too weird for me. So sad, because I would love to try this recipe. Maybe I’ll sub some beans or something in there. 🙂
totally! i bet red beans or black beans would be great!
You could totally substitute beans for the lentils! However, when cooking the potatoes and lentils, the lentils really break down and blend into the potatoes, so the texture is totally different than just eating lentils by themselves 🙂 Let me know if you try this with the bean substitute, I would love to hear how it turns out!
Sounds delicious! With potatoes, plus the starchiness of lentils, you don’t need bread to feel full.
I have several favorite lentil recipes on my site. I also was barely aware of lentils until well into adulthood (I remember one recipe my mom made a few times, but I didn’t like it) but now we eat them at least once a week on average.
totally! so filling and nourishing!
Yep, the starchyness of this meal is all you need, no need for flour or corn tortillas! The lettuce also adds a wonderful crunch. I am just now discovering the magic of lentils as well 🙂
Oh Emily this is fantastic! I love lettuce wraps and would have never thought to put this combo together. Adding this to my must try!! So nice to meet you! And I can’t believe you carried your dog for 7 miles round trip – you are a a trooper!
me too! such a great combo!
Thanks, Sam! Nice to meet you as well!! And my dog only weighs 4 pounds so it really wasn’t a big deal hahaha! My legs hurt from walking more than my arms hurt from carrying him 🙂
These look wonderful!!!!
Thanks Tara! 🙂
Potatoes, lentils, curry? I’d say this may be perfect 😉
Thanks Rebecca! Let me know if you try it 🙂
Emily is awesome!!! and i love how she used red lentils because they cook soooo quickly compared to other lentils.
me too! currently craving this!
Thanks Dixya! I love red lentils as well 🙂
Lovely recipe, anything with lentils gets my vote!
Me too! I love lentils!
So nice to meet ya, Emily – I am a huge fan of lentils and curry – but never had them in a wrap with potatoes – such a great idea!
Thanks for reading! 🙂 Yes, you should try this combo, it’s so tasty!!
I love curry, lentils and (especially) potatoes! I can’t wait to try this.
I hope you do try it! It’s an amazing combo!
mmmm wish i had these to take for lunch this week!
I want to make a second batch for lunch too!
I love how your long walk inspired this recipe, nothing like hunger to get the recipe development juices flowing 😉
I love red lentils and this recipe looks wonderful, thanks Emily.
Haha yeah, a 7 mile walk will do crazy (and delicious) things to your mind!
And I am impressed you came home and cooked a meal! Sometimes when I get to that hunger point I either cave and get take-out or end up eating a bowl of granola or whatever I can get in my mouth the fastest 😉
LOL! same! that’s when i bust out the eggs.
I love lettuce wraps. These sound amazing!
I love them too- so versatile! Thanks for reading!
Sounds and looks so delicious!
Let me know if you give it a try!
I live lentils! This sounds amazing, thanks for sharing with us Emily!
No problem, thanks for reading! 🙂
Hey you! Please join us for meatless mondayyyyyyy! I know its Emily’s dish, but would love if you could…..and now I will say Hi Emily, nice to meet you 🙂 This sounds looovveellllyyy! They would be nice and hearty, which is what it is all about for the meals for me. Love it!
sure! i’ll change the link and link up! xxoo
Nice to meet you too, Tina! They are very hearty! The filling is warm and the lettuce is cool and crunchy. Very satisfying! 🙂
I’ll be right over to have lunch with you and Emily. What shall I bring?
Mimosas! Hehe 🙂
it is TEACH THE CHILD TO TRY NEW STUFFS WEEK here 🙂
and mama has never ever tried a lentil herself.
(I know I know :-))
I need to suck it up and MAKE THESE for her.
for us.
to try 🙂
Confession: I have only recently started experimenting with lentils as well! I’ve gone my whole life not eating them, really for no good reason, and only recently started using them! They’re a great cheap source of protein that blends well with many dishes and spices.