What to cook with lentils

68 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use lentils. 59 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Ethiopian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean recipes.

recipes use it: 68
are built around it: 59
median total time: 45 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 10

Recipes built around lentils

With lentils, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with lentils

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with lentils, out of 68 recipes.

Cumin62% of recipes
Onion82% of recipes
Garlic71% of recipes
Olive oil49% of recipes
Turmeric35% of recipes
Vegetable stock22% of recipes
Tomato37% of recipes
Carrot29% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 60 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1 cup. Half of them fall between 1 to 1½ cups.

Where lentils shows up

Cuisines

Ethiopian12
Middle Eastern9
Mediterranean7
Egyptian6

Courses

Dinner26
Sauce11
Side10

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.