A delicious, baked fritter packed with lentils and black olives - crispy on the outside and so tasty on the inside! These would make a healthy and wonderful appetizer as well as protein and oat packed breakfast!
- 3 tablespoons rolled oats
- 1 cup dry lentils - lentils need to be soaked for 1-4 hours. Once they are soaked I used red, they double in quantity and 1 cup dry lentils yields about 2 cups soaked lentils
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 inch piece of fresh ginger
- 1 small onion chopped about 4 tablespoons
- 2/3 cups chopped California Black Ripe Olives
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 jalapeno chopped seeds removed according to your love of heat
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Olive Oil - for brushing
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Add the oats, soaked lentils, ginger, garlic, cumin, salt into a food processors and pulse till lentils are like powder almost.
Stir in the chopped onion, California Black Ripe Olives, jalapeno and baking powder
Form into circles
Flatten each circle
Brush with olive oil
Bake for 20 minutes
Eat while still warm with ketchup or sambal oelek.