lentils

[ringo]

I've heard dal is nice.

 

[Badgers]

Dal is the FEB of the week

 

[ringo]

I made a version of The Eagle's puy lentils with almost exactly those ingredients last week, was lovely. I'll try and find the recipe.

 

[Mogden]

I have put off any dinner plans this evening in favour of dhal. I bloody love lentils but I seem to be able to eat small mountains of them. Lentil curry to last 2 nights? Not a chance!

 

[Badgers]

I made a version of The Eagle's puy lentils with almost exactly those ingredients last week, was lovely. I'll try and find the recipe.

Cheers

(when I try and write 'cheers' the predictive text wants to write 'cheese then beans' every time)

It is one of those meals that should be fine but recommendations are useful.

 

[ringo]

Can't find it online. Something like this, I expect garlic and mushrooms can be added:

1. 2 tbsp olive oil
2. 1 small onion, finely chopped
3. 2 celery sticks, finely diced
4. 1 carrot, finely diced
5. 300g Puy or soaked green lentils, rinsed
6. 3 fresh thyme sprigs
7. 750ml vegetable stock, hot (made from a good-quality stock cube)
8. Squeeze of lemon juice
9. Extra-virgin olive oil, to taste
10. 1 tsp Dijon mustard
11. Bacon/lardons, cubed and fried

Heat the oil, and sweat the onion til soft, then chuck in the celery and carrot & sweat til soft. Chuck in the lentils, stock and thyme.
Simmer until the lentils are cooked. Add the bacon, lemon juice, mustard and a bit more olive oil if you fancy it.
Stuff face.

 

[ringo]

Braised Puy Lentils
Margot Henderson - Eagle Cookbook
Serves 4

6 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
1 leek, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 medium loose leaved cabbage, thinly sliced
175g puy lentils
175ml white wine
1 lemon
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
Salt & pepper

Heat 5 tbsp olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion, fennel, leek and garlic and cook gently until soft, then add the lentils.
Add the wine and reduce by half (about 5 minutes). Add enough water to the pan so that the lentils abd vegetables are covered by about 2cm and cook for about 20-30 minutes.
The lentils should still hold their shape when cooked but be tender.

Just before serving, stir the cabbage into the lentils - it will cook in the hot lentils. Add a squeeze of lkemon juice, the mustard and the remaining oil to the pan, stir well and season to taste just before serving.

 

[Badgers]

Sadly our kitchen was ripped out today so lentil day is delayed

 

[Orang Utan]

Those are puy lentils, which are my faves! They're nice and firm and taste almost meaty!

POOEY lentils though, be warned.
I like german lentil and frankfurter stew (linsensuppe), made with brown (AKA continental) lentils. it's right tasty.

 

[Orang Utan]

For some reason I have a hankering for lentils today. Have a bag of green lentils, bacon, garlic, mushrooms, chicken stock and a fair mix of herbs/spices to chuck in.

Will add an onion to this. Anything else?

BACON. ALWAYS ADD BACON.
MORE BACON THAT IS

 

[Badgers]

BACON. ALWAYS ADD BACON.
MORE BACON THAT IS

What ratio of lentil to bacon?

 

[Orang Utan]

What ratio of lentil to bacon?

as much as you can afford in favour of bacon/sausages

 

[Riklet]

These recipes sound lush. I can has bacon. I has lentils.

I'm so cookin' 'em later...

 

[Badgers]

as much as you can afford in favour of bacon/sausages

Like a kilo of bacon and a half kilo of lentils?

 

[Orang Utan]

it's up to you, badgers

 

[nagapie]

Sheo's puy lentil and field mushroom casserole is the business and I have been eating it weekly for the last 6 weeks!!

Recipe please! I am collecting Sheo recipes at the moment it seems.

 

[Part 2]

Gonna do dal for tomorrow I think. Got my curry sauce together and the naan bread dough on the rise (I've not made naan before and it seems very sticky!)

Feels good to be well prepared, I may be able to grab a few pints on the way home and still manage to cook tea

 

[Orang Utan]

Recipe please! I am collecting Sheo recipes at the moment it seems.

I've made you that before! Obviously my version was unremarkable

 

[nagapie]

I've made you that before! Obviously my version was unremarkable

You've never made anything for me I didn't like. So yeah, still need the recipe.

 

[fredfelt]

Braised Puy Lentils
Margot Henderson - Eagle Cookbook
Serves 4

6 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
1 leek, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 medium loose leaved cabbage, thinly sliced
175g puy lentils
175ml white wine
1 lemon
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
Salt & pepper

Heat 5 tbsp olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion, fennel, leek and garlic and cook gently until soft, then add the lentils.
Add the wine and reduce by half (about 5 minutes). Add enough water to the pan so that the lentils abd vegetables are covered by about 2cm and cook for about 20-30 minutes.
The lentils should still hold their shape when cooked but be tender.

Just before serving, stir the cabbage into the lentils - it will cook in the hot lentils. Add a squeeze of lkemon juice, the mustard and the remaining oil to the pan, stir well and season to taste just before serving.

Oh, thanks for that. I've got fennel in the fridge that needs using and I was just wondering what to do with it. I've had fennel and white wine together and they make a good pairing so I'll give this a go.

 

[UrbaneFox]

I like the "Indian Housewife's Recipe Book by Laxmi Khurani. Loads of dhal recipes.

 

[hmmph]

I always add quarter of a cup of puy lentils to a cup of brown rice as they take the same amount of time to cook and a little bit more goodiness and yumminess

 

[kittyP]

Idumea from this fair site has made me the best lentil soup I have ever had.
It's always been impromptu and using up what's in the fridge and cupboards but fookin delicious.
I have tried to copy but cannot pull it off in the way she does.

 

[crustychick]

I like the "Indian Housewife's Recipe Book by Laxmi Khurani. Loads of dhal recipes.

I have this somewhere - must dig it out - thanks

 

[petee]

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www.lentils.org

i'm pondering varying my diet with stuff so simple to cook that even i can do it, and cheap too. i thought of lentils, which i may have eaten twice in my life, but they seem to fit the bill, and in the process discovered this website.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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Discover how to cook lentils, browse the best lentil recipes, watch how-to instructional cooking videos, and health and nutrition information.

www.lentils.org

i'm pondering varying my diet with stuff so simple to cook that even i can do it, and cheap too. i thought of lentils, which i may have eaten twice in my life, but they seem to fit the bill, and in the process discovered this website.

Very healthy and cheap, although make you fart like a brass band.

 

[petee]

Very healthy and cheap, although make you fart like a brass band.

add this ingredient !

 

[farmerbarleymow]

add this ingredient !

What is it made of? Looks suspicious if it can stop farts.

 

[danski]

What is it made of? Looks suspicious if it can stop farts.

Lead and concrete.
Only things that will stop mine.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Lead and concrete.
Only things that will stop mine.

There's nowt wrong with farts anyway - something very satisfying about them.