Dinner
Dal Makhani
Black urad lentils and kidney beans simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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Lentils recipes
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Lentils recipes — all 25 recipes
Healthy
Spiced Red Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked down with cumin and turmeric until they collapse entirely into a thick, golden soup, finished…
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Lunch
Turkish Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked to nothing with onion, carrot and potato, blended smooth and finished with a spoonful of chilli…
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Healthy
Dal Tadka
Yellow lentils simmered soft, then finished with a tadka — whole spices bloomed in ghee and poured over at the last…
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Breakfast
Idli Sambar
Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…
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Breakfast
Masala Dosa
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
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Healthy
Mujadara
Lentils and rice cooked together under a mountain of onions fried almost to the point of burning. A dish of the poor…
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Dinner
Haleem
Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…
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Healthy
Egyptian Koshari
Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…
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Healthy
Harira Soup
The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…
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Lunch
Ash Reshteh
A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.
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Dinner
Lentil and Walnut Ragù
Brown lentils and toasted walnuts cooked down with soffritto, tomato and a long simmer into something with the depth…
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Dinner
Lentil Shepherd's Pie
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
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Dinner
Coconut Dal
Sri Lankan parippu: red lentils cooked soft in coconut milk with turmeric, finished with a tempering of mustard…
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Lunch
Shorbet Ads
Red lentil soup finished with cumin, lemon and fried bread. The default first course at every Egyptian table in…
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Appetizers
Salade de Lentilles
Green lentils dressed hot with mustard vinaigrette and shallot. Puy lentils if you can, because they hold their…
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Lunch
Mulligatawny Soup
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
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Breakfast
Upma
Semolina roasted and steamed with mustard seed, curry leaf and vegetables. Ready in twenty-five minutes and the…
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Breakfast
Medu Vada
Doughnut-shaped urad dal fritters, crisp outside and airy in. The hardest simple thing in a south Indian kitchen.
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Breakfast
Uttapam
A thick dosa batter poured small and pressed with onion, tomato and chilli. Softer than a dosa and easier to get…
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Dinner
Sri Lankan Dhal Curry
Red lentils simmered with coconut milk, turmeric and a curry leaf tempering. The dish that appears at every Sri…
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Dinner
Misir Wat
Red lentils cooked down with berbere until they go dark and glossy and the oil separates out. The dry onion start…
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Lunch
Shorbat Adas
Yellow lentil soup, smooth as cream, with a hard squeeze of lemon at the end. The first thing you are given in Egypt.
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Dinner
Dal Palak
Yellow lentils cooked soft and finished with spinach and a garlic tempering. Forty-five minutes and it is a whole…
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Appetizers
Dahi Vada
Lentil dumplings soaked soft, squeezed and drowned in sweetened yoghurt with two chutneys. Cold, and best made a few…
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