Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live

Take the above mixture and throw it wherever you’d usually put seared cow/pig/chicken. Don’t have lentil loaf? NO WORRIES. You could do the same thing to cooled lentils, and this is how we almost always make it. Don’t want to grate garlic? You could use granulated or just chop it. The flavors will be altered accordingly, but it’s a time saver. Start with the tsp each of of the seasonings, and then adjust on the back-end per your tastes. I tend to have a base framework and then alter from there (because sometimes I’m cooking for folks who may not like a lot of cumin, the berbere would be too spicy, or their salt preferences/requirements are different than ours.) — Take the above mixture and throw it wherever you’d usually put seared cow/pig/chicken.

**Don’t have** **lentil loaf**?
**NO WORRIES**. You could do the same thing to cooled lentils, *and this is how we almost always make it.*

**Don’t want to grate garlic?** You could use granulated or just chop it. The flavors will be altered accordingly, but it’s a time saver.
Start with the tsp each of of the seasonings, and then adjust on the back-end per your tastes. I tend to have a base framework and then alter from there (because sometimes I’m cooking for folks who may not like a lot of cumin, the berbere would be too spicy, or their salt preferences/requirements are different than ours.)

Despite their robust health benefits, their amazingly inexpensive price-per-cup, and their versatility; lentils used to be a rare occurrence in this household. If you’d told me that I’d not only be enjoying them, but Raving about (and perpetually craving) “lentil loaf tacos” I’d likely’ve balked.

For most of us, 2020 has been a whirl of change. On our end, it made it all the more economically imperative that we use inexpensive ingredients in myriad vectors (<—I was laid-off at the start of the pandemic); and it was through that silver-ling squeeze that these body-kind/environmentally-kind/animal-kind delights were created.

Just like “meatloaf” tastes like saucier ground-up muscle; lentil loaf tastes just-like/but-better muscle-meatloaf, and it holds together better than ground beef (<—you can just sear it in strips); and if you add it to a taco, you get all the flavor you want from muscle-meat, but you have it in an easier-to-eat-form. Plus it is healthier for you and better for the planet than the cow carcass.

It’s a win-win delicious win; and at Your Kind Kitchen’s First tasting these easy beauties were loved by all, so this is not just environmental hot-air.

And, if you’re like old-me and you hear “lentil loaf tacos” and your brain jumps right to something akin to “That’s weird” or even hollers “GROSS!”, first I’d point out that consuming ground-up flesh (that is full of bacteria, antibiotics, and pesticides) that is directly tied to increasing your chance of cardiovascular disease and cancer is foolishly gross. And if you’re anything like old-me, you’re eating several animal-product packed meals a day, and you need the harsh shake of those facts (again and again) to start shifting your meals plant-based for planetary health and body health (<— and if you care about compassion, you just added a big heaping swell of that to the line-up. <—And if you’re like old-me and calling yourself an “animal lover” while perpetually participating in a cycle where animals are bred/raised in horrible conditions just so you can have them slaughtered for a meal you do not require at all nutritionally —ie you’re doing this purely for taste— and also calling yourself an “environmentalist/nature lover/etc” while consuming a product directly tied to the destruction/ruination of our environment: you may want to do like old-me did and acknowledge that hypocrisy and grow forward. <—The future of every species depends on it —this includes my son’s future— so I have boundless energy for self-improvement, and hopefully there’s someone/thing out there that you care about enough to spark inspiration in you too. )

Have a moment and want to create a dish you’ll then crave every meal from then on? Something bursting with fibrous HEALTH instead of disease and destruction? Try this recipe.

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