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Carrot ginger lentil salad

Green lentil salad with roasted carrot, ginger, spinach and pumpkin seeds.

Carrot-ginger lentil salad with spinach and pumpkin seeds.
326 kcal per servingPrep time: 25 minServings: 1LunchLentil saladCarrot and ginger

Ingredients

  • 150 g cooked green lentils
  • 2 carrots, sliced
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 50 g baby spinach
  • 15 g pumpkin seeds and ½ lime

Method

  1. Roast the carrots with ginger at 210°C for 20 minutes.
  2. Toss the warm carrots and lentils with spinach and lime juice.
  3. Toast the pumpkin seeds in a dry pan and scatter them over the salad.

Calories in context

At 326 kcal per serving, this dish is about 16% of a 2000 kcal daily reference intake — the standard reference amount used on nutrition labels, not a personal target.

Eaten as the midday meal in a three-meal day, it is one part of a day whose real total depends on your own body, activity level and goals, not on any single recipe. For a calorie range that reflects those, rather than a generic reference figure, the tools below can help.

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