Lunch

Lentil Bolognese with Wholewheat Spaghetti

Name: Lentil Bolognese with Wholewheat Spaghetti
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 300 g Cooked lentils; 350 g Cooked wholewheat pasta; 400 g Chopped tomatoes, tinned; 100 g Onion; 100 g Carrot; 1 stick, about 40 g Celery; 3 cloves, about 9 g Garlic; 10 g Olive oil; 2 tbsp (30 g) Tomato purée; A teaspoon Dried oregano; 2 tbsp (10 g) Nutritional yeast; To taste Salt

Green lentils cooked slowly with onion, carrot, celery and tomato until it eats like a ragu, over wholewheat spaghetti. Nothing dairy. 29 g of protein for 554 kcal.

Calories: 554kcal
Protein: 29g
Fat: 7g
Carbs: 96g

Per serving, makes 2. 20 minutes of work, then simmers for 30 minutes. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Celery

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Ingredients

Cooked lentils300 g
Cooked weight, green or brown. A pouch is already this.
Cooked wholewheat pasta350 g
Cooked weight.
Chopped tomatoes, tinned400 g
Onion100 g
Carrot100 g
Celery1 stick, about 40 g
Garlic3 cloves, about 9 g
Olive oil10 g
Tomato purée2 tbsp (30 g)
Dried oreganoA teaspoon
Nutritional yeast2 tbsp (10 g)
SaltTo taste

Method

Chop the onion, carrot and celery small and cook them in the oil over a low heat for fifteen minutes, until soft and sweet and starting to catch. Add the garlic and tomato purée and stir for two minutes.
Add the tomatoes, lentils, oregano and half a tin of water. Simmer uncovered for thirty minutes, stirring now and then, until it is thick and the lentils have started to break down into the sauce.
Season well with salt. Stir the nutritional yeast through for a savoury, almost cheesy depth.
Toss with the hot pasta and a splash of its cooking water so the sauce clings.

Worth knowing

Makes two. The sauce is better on day two, and it freezes.
Wholewheat pasta is 124 kcal per 100 g cooked against 158 for white, and holds a sauce like this better. It is a large part of why the plate lands where it does.

Other lunch recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every lunch between 450 and 600 calories a serving.

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