A recipe no one’s ever seen before!! Using lentils!!

My only prior experience with lentils is the Lentil Soup that is readily found in Turkish restaurants all over Germany. Those are pretty hearty, filling, and soothing on a blustery winter’s evening.

@babettxx's challenge to 'create a lentils dish that no one’s ever seen before' brought me to push my mental boundaries. Last Thursday, I made a yummy low-carb brownie using Cauliflower!

Why not make another healthy dessert using lentils?

So I came up with a new dessert recipe using lentils.

DISH NAME

Blueberry Cheesecake Lentil Squares!!

I couldn’t decide whether to call these brownies or blondies, since chocolate is not the star of the show. I finally settled for the generic term ‘Square’, even though I’m aiming for a fudgey texture typically associated with brownies! =)

Lentils take this Squares to new guilt-free heights! It’s so great to be able to dig into a yummy treat, and feel good about doing so! teehee

Ingredients use to make the Blueberry Cheesecake Lentil Squares

90g Rolled Oats, blended till fine
3g Sea Salt
1g Vanilla Bean, freshly ground
0.5g Baking Soda
100g Red Lentils
250ml Water
130g Cream Cheese
150g Sweetened Condensed Milk
Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice (just a light squish with the fingers)
125g Fresh Blueberries

How to make the Blueberry Cheesecake Lentil Squares

Blend rolled oats in a blender till finely ground and smooth (3 min).

Pour into a bowl and mix in baking soda, salt, and vanilla bean.

Combine water and lentils in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer covered till lentils are soft (10 min). Blend cooked lentils till smooth.

Mix cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, and lentil puree till smooth. Squeeze in a couple drops of lemon juice. Fold in the dry oat mixture. Very gently stir in half of the blueberries.

Pour batter into an oiled baking pan and dot the surface with remaining blueberries.

Bake till set (20-25 min, depending on how fudgey you want them to be!).

I served mine with a Mascarpone Cream Cheese Whip that I'd made a couple days earlier to pipe words on a birthday cake.

The Squares turned out so delicious with this topping, that I ended up splooging my remaining Mascarpone Cream Cheese Whip all over it to enjoy. No pic of that mess though...heh

Gonna make more tomorrow to eat with the rest of my healthy Blueberry Cheesecake Lentil Bars leftovers!! Yumm =D

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