Sarah Swallow recently took to the Passed Plate YouTube channel to share a recipe she’s been developing while bikepacking across the globe. Using a universal ingredient she’s found almost everywhere, she presents a nutritious, high-quality meal and shares how to cook it in the video below…

The Passed Plate, a YouTube channel that focuses on the origins of specific meals from around the world, recently aired an episode featuring Sarah Swallow’s universal bikepacking meal. In it, she shares a recipe she’s been developing in her two-wheeled travels. Based on an ingredient she says she’s found in almost every country she’s visited, the video covers her origins as an off-road adventure cyclist and how to prepare and cook the meal.

Through a story about one of her trips through Peru, Sarah shows how her ability to find lentils in some of the globe’s most remote corners is why this meal centers on the tiny, protein-rich legume. Combined with the spices and complex carbs listed below, this dish comes together to make a comforting, warm, relatively easy-to-make riff on a camp meal that feels like home cooking in the middle of nowhere.

Universal Bikepacking Meal Ingredients

  • Sweet potato (peeled)
  • Onion
  • Olive oil
  • Orange lentils
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Cumin
  • Turmeric
  • Coriander
  • Curry powder
  • Cinnamon

For more from Sarah, check out her Instagram.

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