/LG/ Lentil General

[Anonymous No.17993123]

Bros, I just discovered red lentils. A $1.25 bag makes enough soup for a week. Do you have any tips for spicing this lil niggas? This is my recipe.

>before cooking, I always put on my Kurta for authenticity

>boil the piss out of onion, carrots, with some chicken bullion
>maybe toss in an old potato or some floppy celery too
>when the onion's clear, toss in the lentils and let boil until soft
>put mixture into blender until thick bisque
>season with olive oil, red pepper flakes, cayenne, paprika
>serve with lemon wedge + a wedge of buttered-up super chewy sourdough

it's so fuckin' good bros

[Anonymous No.17993143]

>>17993123
cool.

[Anonymous No.17993144]

usually make a dhal
>sautee onions, garlic and ginger in coconut oil
>once translucent dump in the lentils with curry powder
>cover with chicken broth and let simmer till soft
heard adding coconut milk makes is pretty good but I haven't tried yet

[Anonymous No.17993235]

the lack of hajis and pajeets sharing their recipes is disapointing

[Anonymous No.17993240]

>>17993123
what colour is your skin?

[Anonymous No.17993254]

>>17993240
Are you implying that colored person just discovered lentils and wasn't raised on them?

[Anonymous No.17993270]

>>17993254
ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION

[Anonymous No.17993273]

>>17993254
Tell us Juan

[Anonymous No.17993283]

>>17993123
Use them to bulk up pasta dishes or things like lasagnes

[Anonymous No.17993287]

>>17993123
ham, carrots, potato, onions, garlic
sometimes i add smoked paprika and cumin to make a southwest flavor

[Anonymous No.17993293]

[Anonymous No.17993301]

>>17993273
>>17993270
I am a white person, I swear.

[Anonymous No.17993304]

>>17993293
>posts pic
>no recipe
the absolute state of this board

[Anonymous No.17993321]

You may not personally like them for some (likely dumb) reason but lentils are on the same level as deenz for being nutritious and underrated. This is a simple fact and anyone disagreeing is either a troll or retarded.
>t. has probably 10 kg of home cooked 300g ready-to-microwave lentil portions in his freezer and probably 30+ tins of King Oscar in his cupboard

[Anonymous No.17993342]

>>17993304
it was a second pic to my first post >>17993287
anyway i still prefer split pea soup
i just made a ham shank and used the leftovers to make 3lbs of split pea soup, 2lbs of 15 bean soup, 5lbs of mash potatoes, 6 cups of yellow rice , 8 courts of chili and a ton of refried beans

I'm not sure why but now my freezer is stocked plus i got some cornbread chilling in a broken microwave

[Anonymous No.17993393]

>>17993342
how long that gonna last you?

[Anonymous No.17993398]

>>17993123
>Boil with chilli powder and turmeric
>Fry minced garlic and chillies in ghee
>Add to boiled lentils when porridge-like consistency

[Anonymous No.17993417]

>>17993393
i try to use it up within a few months so it doesn't get freezers burned
i buy things dirt cheap when they go on sale like potatoes, onions, bell peppers but they are normally almost going bad so i have to freeze them right away and it's also kinda convenient to be able to just grab out some diced onions or preformed burgers that i only need to thaw and cook

[Anonymous No.17993930]

>>17993304

My gf is Spanish and cooks a similar dish. I've made it a couple of times in a pinch

- 1 minced onion
- 3/4 cloves garlic, minced
- around 225g Pardina (thick green/brown) lentils
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 medium carrot, cubed
- 1 sweet red pepper, diced
- 100g diced chorizo or Iberian ham
- 1 tbsp pimenton (sweet-smoked paprika)
- 1 tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley

>Cook the onions and garlic until transluscent, then fry the meat with chopped veggies for a few mins, season with salt and pepper and paprika.

> tip in lentils and cover with water, add stock and/or a dash of white wine vinegar to taste. The Spanish recipe just uses water and no stock.

>She insists that a couple of bayleaves must also be thrown in, also add the chopped parsley. Simmer until lentils are fully cooked, maybe 30-40 mins. You can reduce the water further and make it more like a stew by simmering for about an hour as well.

[Anonymous No.17993965]

I'm using them instead of flour to makes sauces thicker.

I add them to tomato sauce f.e.

You can also make a lentil steak. Or smth like a taco sauce

[Anonymous No.17994064]

>>17993321
Why would microwave the nutrition away? Eat it cold pussy

[Anonymous No.17994091]

>>17993123
cut two heads of chicoree in half, fry them lightly in oilive oil, set aside. Put lentils in pan, add stock, honey and vinegar, simmer lentils in that until almost soft, then add Dijon mustard and sour cream, simmer for another minute, add chicoree back in and sprinke with roasted pine nuts and halved grapes.

[Anonymous No.17994101]

>>17993930
sounds perfect

[Anonymous No.17994903]

>Do you have any tips for spicing this lil niggas
cook lentils in water, when softer (as you like, just remember you have to cook more) then sautee some diced onions, carrots and celery, put the lentils and add some red wine. mix and make alcohol evaporate, then add salt, pepper and optionally some tomato sauce

[Anonymous No.17994924]

>>17993930
My Spanish GF never cooked for me but her boobies smelled like chicken noodle soup, she wasn't happy when i told her that but i thought it was awesome... very comforting

[Anonymous No.17994947]

>>17993287
>smoked paprika and cumin
>southwest flavor
American education again. Never fails to amuse the world.

[Anonymous No.17994977]

>>17994947
yea they're now kinda synonymous with southwest dishes, saying otherwise is like saying pizza is a south American dish because tomatoes come from there

[Anonymous No.17995002]

>>17993342
>8 courts of chili
gonna serve that with a yard of feta cheese, right?

[Anonymous No.17995018]

google Mercimek Corbasi

[Anonymous No.17995027]

>>17995002
don't pick on me, English is my second language... I'm from America

[Anonymous No.17995052]

>>17993123
I like to toss some feta into it at the end.

[Anonymous No.17995062]

ive been cooking for myself for the past 2-3 years and feel like i've learned a lot but i still never did anything with beans. for some reason cooking them really intimidates me. the soaking you have to do etc...

[Anonymous No.17995144]

>>17993123
I used to live in these kinda shitty apartments a few years ago and for some reason somebody would keep fucking dumping cooked lentils in the corner near the stairs about 15 feet away from my door. it just started one day, there was like a cup or so worth of cooked lentils just dumped on the ground clearly from the floor above us. we were confused but some animals ate them over the next couple days and they were gone, but they showed up again maybe a week later and I saw one of my neighbors cleaning them up, so I asked if she knew where they were coming from and she was just as confused as I was. so we complained to the office and they posted a notice saying not to dump any food or garbage where it shouldn't be, and stopped for a couple weeks but then it started again and it was like double the amount this time. then I was pissed so I went and knocked on the doors near the stairs and spoke to the people in the like 4 apartments above us and told them I didn't know who was doing it but it was clearly from one of the people on that floor, and that if it continued I would find out who it was personally. it stopped after that, and we ended up moving out about a year later. fast forward a bit and I'm going back to the same block of apartments to hang out a friend who moved into one of the neighboring apartments and the fucking lentils are back and when I asked about it they said that they had just found them there that morning and they were confused about it. never found out who it was or why they were doing it but I refuse to eat lentils now.

[Anonymous No.17995310]

>>17993304
I see carrots... maybe some onions... and that square thing is probably a square of chocolate.

[Anonymous No.17995352]

>>17995310
>and that square thing is probably a square of chocolate.
i noticed that to late and seriously hope it's not

[Anonymous No.17995369]

>>17995352
Not eating chocolate with your lentils? Not gonna make it.

[Anonymous No.17995383]

add
salt, pepper, garlic
cumin, paprika, cayenne
bacon fat

then wrap in a tortilla with rice and eat it with some vegtable salsa

[Anonymous No.17995486]

>>17995383
>soup in a wrap?
anon...What?

[Anonymous No.17995813]

>>17993123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_S1UgLzQVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap9TaNkEPxg

[Anonymous No.17996672]

>>17993235
This is a white man's board.