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Nourishing Lentil Bowl with Kale and Chicken Meatballs

Updated: Dec 21st 2018 • Published: Feb 15th 2017 • 2 Comments

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This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!

I have just finished at chapel where Mr 6 got a certificate of recognition. You can see the gorgeous things his teacher wrote over on my instagram page.  Super proud of my boys, they love school so much! Although Mr 9 is at the age where he hates homework. I know this as I heard it about a bazzilion times last night as he was trying to complete an acrossstick puzzle with compound words. There was a lot of muttering and mumbling!!! I am dreading high school homework!!!!

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!

Anyway, I am meeting friends for lunch and as I didn’t want to drive all the way home after chapel, I am sat in the library trying to get ahead of the game and post this beautiful restorative lentil bowl. I almost called it a soup as I like lots of the yummy broth with mine, but Stew likes his without broth! Without the broth this is a great meal to take in a tupperware for lunch, so I guess it would be more lentil tupperware than lentil bowl. 😉
What is more these meatballs don’t have garlic in them so you won’t stink out the breakout area (I had to stop giving Stew my Thai chicken meatballs for lunch as he said they were too garlicky for the office!!!!!!)

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!

These chicken meatballs are delectably light making them the perfect partner to the earthy lentils and iron-y kale. (I use baby kale!) They have a little parmesan in them and a grating of parmesan over the whole dish is good. I forgot to add it to the finished dish when I was photographing them. Then I ate them and remembered! But by then it was too late.

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons! From Sprinkles and Sprouts

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons! From Sprinkles and Sprouts

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons! From Sprinkles and Sprouts

This works with dry lentils or cooked lentils from a can. I love canned lentils!!! As long as you buy the ones that aren’t full of salt, they are healthy and perfect for a last minute meal. I often add lentils to my spaghetti bolognase. They melt into the sauce and you can hide them from the children 😉 and you can use less meat!

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!

What is more this lentil bowl is one of those dishes that not only tastes amazing, because it is nice and healthy, it makes you feel amazing,  And because it is pretty healthy it also allows you to justify a cinnamon bun with your boys after school pick up. Ooops that may just be me 😉 (I am testing out a few ideas to try and make a bake from frozen cinnamon bun….I am eating a lot of buns!)

The meatballs are lightly poached which gives them the most beautiful texture. If you want some colour then you could pan fry them, but I love the softness you get from poaching, and you get added flavour from the chicken stock.

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!Has a lentil bowl ever looked as delicious and vibrant? Doesn’t it just screams healthy yet comforting!

Enjoy x


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This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!
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Nourishing Lentil Bowl with Kale and Chicken Meatballs

This Lentil Bowl with kale and chicken meatballs is the perfect mix of comfort food and healthy lunch. Hearty and warming without being heavy or stodgy but light enough for a warm day. It really is the dish for all seasons!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time25 mins
Servings: 4
Author: Claire | Sprinkles and Sprouts
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Ingredients

For the meatballs

  • 450 g (1 lb) chicken mince
  • 2 tbsp grated parmesan
  • 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp chopped parsley

For the soup

  • 1 large onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1.25 L (5 cups) chicken stock
  • 1/4 tsp lemon zest
  • 1/4 tsp dried basil
  • 1/4 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 cans brown lentils (425 g/15 oz, no added salt)
  • 2 large handfuls of baby kale

Instructions

  • Start by making the meatballs. Mix all the ingredients together until they are just combined.
  • Use a teaspoon to scoop out small amounts and form the mixture into small bite sized meatballs.
  • Set them aside.
  • Peel the onion and carrot and chop them both into small dice.
  • Heat the olive oil in a large pan (one you have a lid for) and add the onion and carrot.
  • Cook over a medium heat until the onion is translucent but not coloured.
  • Pour in the stock, bring to a simmer and then add the lemon zest, dried basil and ground coriander.
  • Simmer the veg for 5 minutes until the carrots are cooked.
  • Reduce the heat to the lowest setting you can and then carefully place the meatballs into the stock.
  • Cover and cook for 9 minutes.
  • Add the cooked lentils to the broth to heat through for a minute.
  • Use a slotted spoon to divide the lentils between 4 deep bowls. Add some kale to each bowl and portion out the meatballs.
  • Carefully spoon the broth over the kale so it wilts slightly.
  • Serve with an extra grating of parmesan.
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  1. Dorothy Dunton says

    Feb 17th 2017 at 6:33 am

    Hi Claire. This sound really good except for one thing, I don’t like lentils (scowl at me if you wish). I would sub in cooked barley because I do love barley and I don’t think it would alter this too much, do you?

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    • Claire McEwen says

      Feb 17th 2017 at 10:49 am

      I love barley!!! That would be a great substitution.

      I may have to steal that and make a Barley Bowl 🙂
      x

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