Dinner

Warm Lentil Salad with Bacon and a Poached Egg

Name: Warm Lentil Salad with Bacon and a Poached Egg
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g Cooked lentils; 90 g Bacon medallions; 30 g Shallot; 1 tsp, about 6 g Dijon mustard; A tablespoon Red wine vinegar; 1 tsp (5 g) Olive oil; 60 g Spinach; 1 large, about 55 g Egg; A handful, chopped Fresh parsley; Plenty Black pepper

Warm lentils dressed with shallot, Dijon and red wine vinegar, tossed with crisp bacon medallions and spinach, with a poached egg on top. 43 g of protein.

Calories: 436kcal
Protein: 43g
Fat: 14g
Carbs: 36g

Per serving, makes 1. 20 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Eggs
Mustard
Sulphites

Flags follow UK labelling rules and come from the ingredients as listed, not from any particular brand. Check the packet before cooking for somebody with an allergy.

Ingredients

Cooked lentils150 g
Puy or green lentils, cooked or from a pouch. Cooked weight, green or brown. A pouch is already this.
Bacon medallions90 g
Cut into strips. Weighed raw. Back bacon with the fat on is about double.
Shallot30 g
Finely chopped.
Dijon mustard1 tsp, about 6 g
Red wine vinegarA tablespoon
Olive oil1 tsp (5 g)
Spinach60 g
Egg1 large, about 55 g
Fresh parsleyA handful, chopped
Black pepperPlenty

Method

Whisk the shallot, mustard, vinegar and oil together in a bowl big enough to hold everything.
Fry the bacon strips in a dry non-stick pan until crisp at the edges, about five minutes. Add the lentils to the pan with a splash of water and warm through for two minutes.
Tip the hot lentils and bacon into the dressing with the spinach and toss until the leaves wilt from the heat.
Poach the egg in barely simmering water for three minutes, lift it onto the salad and scatter with parsley and pepper.

Worth knowing

Dressing the lentils while they are hot is the whole trick. Cold lentils sit in a dressing; hot ones drink it.
The lentils bring 13 g of protein on their own, so the bacon is 90 g rather than a whole packet. The egg on top brings the plate to the protein figure shown.

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