/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20321386]

Why would anyone use lentils over beans? Lentils have an unpleasant tough texture and very little substance.

[Anonymous No.20321396]

>>20321386
lentils have a very pleasant texture and taste good

[Anonymous No.20321409]

>>20321396
saar?

[Anonymous No.20321441]

>>20321386
>i am undercooking my lentils

[Anonymous No.20321446]

Lentils are to be used as a substitute for grains, not beans.

[Anonymous No.20321461]

>>20321386
Lentils are fucking delicious, you stinky bitch

[Anonymous No.20321465]

They're healthy

[Anonymous No.20321474]

>>20321386
They’re pretty nice when you sprout them, taste and texture is a lot like fresh peas

[Anonymous No.20321488]

>>20321386
I bought lentils instead of beans by mistake once and they're still in a cupboard, I don't know what to do with them. I'm thinking adding some sazon goya, what do you folk think?

[Anonymous No.20321489]

>>20321461
saar!

[Anonymous No.20321501]

>>20321489

[Anonymous No.20321504]

>>20321488
Add them to whatever stew you want really. They're pretty plain on their own

[Anonymous No.20321506]

>>20321488
Which type of lentils? Red and yellow turn to mush when you cook them, so you can make a pretty good ground beef substitute with bread crumbs and Worcestershire sauce. Green and black lentils are best in soups or cooked and tossed in salad dressing.

[Anonymous No.20321507]

>>20321461
What's a good recipe for making lentils?
I have a bag of them and want to use them up.

[Anonymous No.20321509]

>>20321506
>>20321507
Depends on what kind you have

[Anonymous No.20321512]

>>20321386
If the skin is the problem then you can find split/skinned lentils. I can find red lentils like this. You can cook them down until they're thick and make it feel more substantial.

[Anonymous No.20321516]

>>20321506
Green lentils, a bag from goya.

[Anonymous No.20321530]

>>20321516
I would make a hearty stew with green lentils, personally. You can also use them to cut your ground meat with in, like, Lasagna or something

[Anonymous No.20321533]

I think that since I already have chile that I made last weekend then I could add the lentils next to it. I just don't know how to make the lentils, I've never done it before.

[Anonymous No.20321537]

>>20321386
Lentils are cheap. Here's a recipe I screencapped from here and use fairly often

[Anonymous No.20321539]

Lentils are the best, beans are for mexicans.
A nice pork belly and sausage lentil stew simply cant be beat.

[Anonymous No.20321550]

>>20321386
I don’t need to soak red lentils that’s why

[Anonymous No.20321554]

>>20321537
thanks, will try it out, now I need to find bay leaves

[Anonymous No.20321560]

>>20321386
>confession thread: I have no clue about how to cook lentils, also I'd suck dick for days

[Anonymous No.20321567]

>>20321554
FYI I use green lentils and stir a couple times around the 25-30 minute mark, otherwise I've noticed the ones on top don't cook as evenly.
Also you can reserve the bacon once crisped and use it as a garnish if you prefer

[Anonymous No.20321575]

>>20321550
Lentils are much better soaked

[Anonymous No.20321578]

>Lentils have an unpleasant tough texture
Skill issue.
>and very little substance.
False.

[Anonymous No.20321581]

>>20321386
learn to cook lil bro

[Anonymous No.20321583]

For how long are dry lentils to be soaked?

[Anonymous No.20321588]

>>20321581
Them 'Tils are lookin good, lad

[Anonymous No.20321594]

>>20321441
THIS
>>20321446
Wat?
Personally, one of my cheapest and easiest go to recipes for filling but clean tasting and feeling dinner is:
>get out my cheap rice cooker
>fill a drinking glass halfway with sorted lentils
>dump into cheap rice cooker
>fill glass full with jasmine or other rice(not brown)
>dump into cheap rice cooker
>rinse out lentils and rice well, dump water using lid to strain*(careful now, don't be slippin'!)
>tsp. salt, a shake of poultry seasoning, tsp. garlic pow
>2 full glasses of water(same glass you used before)
>½stick butter (4Tblspns)
>hit the little lever on the cooker
>when it pops up,(the lever on the cooker, I mean,) wait 10 minutes
Then eat with whatever meat and vegetables you want--or not. It's pretty damn good just by itself.
And yes, I can cook rice in just a saucepot, but you can't just walk away from that for up to an hour while doing other work like you can with a cheap $20 ricecooker.
>pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.20321598]

>>20321581
That looks like a proppa sloppa and needs some celery and some fixins

[Anonymous No.20321608]

>>20321506
This guy KNOWS his legumes!
>>20321488
>those digits...I feel something rising...
That stuff would be perfect for my rice cooker method--Don't forget the butter, it makes all the difference.

[Anonymous No.20321609]

>>20321598
Try these

[Anonymous No.20321615]

>>20321581
Flawless execution, anon.

[Anonymous No.20321624]

>>20321506
>you can make a pretty good ground beef substitute with bread crumbs and Worcestershire sauce [and red lentils]
Fucking how? They disintegrate into nothingness. I use European lentils (green/brown/whatever colour you call them in English; the common motherfuckers) in certain dishes as a variant instead of beef like keema or, yes, burgers (+lentil flour, to help hold it together).
No breadcrumbs necessary.

[Anonymous No.20321631]

>>20321624
Add more breadcrumbs

[Anonymous No.20321689]

>>20321631
No.

[Anonymous No.20321694]

>>20321689
FINE FUCK YOU HAVE FALLING APART LENTIL MUSH PUSSY

[Anonymous No.20321965]

>>20321694
They don't fall apart when I make them into burgers because lentil flour. Stop trying to make me mix breadcrumbs into pea soup.

[Anonymous No.20321975]

>>20321965
Goo good g'joob, motherfucker

[Anonymous No.20322327]

>eat chickpeas for protein
>end up getting bad constipation and feeling sick and nauseous
>switch to lentils
>same thing
so what are my options for cheap protein now

[Anonymous No.20322331]

>>20322327
5lb sack of $2 flour provides 227g of protein.

[Anonymous No.20322332]

>>20321386
Curry with beans instead of lentils sounds disgusting. You need to try more Indian and Nepali food. Lentil curries can really rival any meat dish out there

[Anonymous No.20322334]

>>20322327
You felt bad and got constipated because you probably went from 2g of fiber a day to 30+g and/or you don't drink enough water. You're supposed to slowly increase fiber intake if you're one of the 95% of Americans who get less than 10g of fiber a day

[Anonymous No.20322338]

>>20321975
Those two look like they need good jug of XXX and a room.

[Anonymous No.20322343]

>>20322332
>Curry with beans instead of lentils sounds disgusting.
that's just your SAAR conditioning. White ppl don't eat vegetarian curries unless they're leftists.

[Anonymous No.20322344]

>>20322334
yes i went from starving every day to this. so should i just push through it and keep eating lentils and drinking?

[Anonymous No.20322347]

>>20322344
It's up to you, I did when I upped my fiber in take. Throw in some metamucil to help things out until your gut biome adjusts

[Anonymous No.20322348]

>>20322343
More mask conditioning, wear the masks, do what some government shitheads say, get your vaccines.

[Anonymous No.20322350]

>>20322343
it's weird and cringe that you guys suddenly started spamming indian memes with a serbian accent

[Anonymous No.20322356]

>>20321386
Red lentil soup, with some rice and chicken goes a long way

[Anonymous No.20322359]

>>20322344
Tbh I switched to vegetarian curries because I was always disappointed with the meat quality and Indian restaurants and can't be bothered to cook for myself after work. Vegetarian curries are really tip notch though

[Anonymous No.20322360]

>>20322350
What?
How can you tell any indian anything or serbian accent on an American message board?

[Anonymous No.20322368]

>>20321386
>unpleasant tough texture
Anon, you need to cook them.

[Anonymous No.20322369]

>>20322359
>>20321386
IMO, these Indonesian curry's blow the stuff out of anything from india.

[Anonymous No.20322375]

>>20321488
That could work. I usually just make a stew out of them with some onions, carrots and smoked sausage and seasoned with thyme and parsley.

[Anonymous No.20322388]

>>20322375
Some beer might work too

[Anonymous No.20322396]

>>20321461
bilbo would have been thinner by the time he met gollum

[Anonymous No.20322447]

I have a billion packs of lentils from the food bank. I'm gonna make a stew tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.20322457]

>>20321386
I spilled baked lentils all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this nigga eating lentils" & everyone laughed.

[Anonymous No.20322467]

>>20322396
You're imagining a much thinner bilbo at the start than I am

[Anonymous No.20322478]

>>20321386
You should try beluga lentils.

[Anonymous No.20322500]

they cook faster

[Anonymous No.20323489]

>>20321386
I don't want to fart a lot.

[Anonymous No.20323497]

>>20323489
make sure that it's not shart alot, that can get messy.

[Anonymous No.20323590]

>>20321386
Lentils require less preparation and cooking time. They are handy if you want to cook a large stew in 45mins to an hour or so. It isn't absolutely necessary to soak them overnight as it is for beans. Green lentils are nice in a pork based stew (bacon, chorizo, pork belly or ribs, black pudding...) with some vegetables. Red/yellow lentils are best as a solo side dish especially as a curry.

[Anonymous No.20323757]

>>20323590
>It isn't absolutely necessary to soak them overnight as it is for beans
I never soak any beans ever except chickpeas.

[Anonymous No.20323782]

>>20321386
You can fried them.

[Anonymous No.20323784]

>>20321386
test

[Anonymous No.20323812]

>>20323784
Ban successfully evaded, Anon-kun.

[Anonymous No.20323888]

>>20323757
well then you are slowly killing yourself and failing to digest most of the nutrients

[Anonymous No.20324015]

>>20321581
vegan-ass nigga

[Anonymous No.20324128]

>>20323888
False.

[Anonymous No.20324267]

>>20321386
>Why would anyone use lentils over beans?
I can make them on a whim and don't need to soak them first

[Anonymous No.20324270]

Counterpoint: lentils are great. Beans are too.

[Anonymous No.20324278]

>>20321386
>tough texture
have ya tried cooking em, OP??

[Anonymous No.20324298]

>>20324267
I used to do that but government twatbags are trying to ban gas stoves and that's retard level. These control level government fags are getting out of hand.