Non-Dal Lentil Recipe Suggestions
Non-Dal Lentil Recipe Suggestions
I've found myself with way more red lentils than expected and, as much as I like it, a man can only have Dal so many times. Any other suggestions for what I can do with Lentils?
I tend to buy more than I should, so I do patties or savoury pancakes.
I don’t have a specific recipe. I just search for one every time like a savage haha
I mean, I don't think you have to rush eating red lentils. They should stay good for a long time.
But I routinely throw red lentils into tomato sauce as a pseudo-bolognese. Lentil curry works quite well. And I've found that cooking lentils for a longer time in salt water will make them taste a bit like egg, which could probably be fun in a salad.
In my home region (Southern Germany), we also make a dish with lentils + noodles + roux. Typically, we'd use brown lentils and specific noodles, which are more doughy than the typical Italian pasta, but it'll probably still taste half-decent, just because of the roux.
You mean that?
Red lentil curry over spätzle (the only German noodles I know of) sounds like it would be amazing or at least worth trying.
I was actually talking about spätzle in that last paragraph. 😅
The dish is called "Linsen mit Spätzle" (which literally means "lentils with spätzle").And yeah, I should probably give curry with spätzle a try, too. That does sound like it could work quite well.
You might try looking for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe. I have never made one myself but there’s an Egyptian restaurant near me that makes an incredibly delicious lentil soup. Very hearty, rich, and comforting. Typically the only meat-based ingredient is a chicken stock which you can easily substitute for vegetable and mushroom stocks!
Brown lentils work the best, but you can work red lentils into a meatloaf type dish.
I love lentil stews with potatoes. Something like a sieglinde potato that will hold together well. That with a few copped carrots? Delicious.
https://cookinglsl.com/easy-instant-pot-lentil-soup-with-potatoes
If you've got some root veggies handy, and ideally some bones left over from a roast to make stock, then you can do worse than making yourself some lentil soup. Ate so much of this growing up, it's amazing.
I’m not gonna remove your comment because I want to support conversation and! in no way be a power tripping mod, but cooking with bones or roast is not support by this plantbased community.
Mean this is a non-rude tone!
Please anyone feel free to share their thoughts on if this is the right route to take. I do not want to follow the rude militant vegan communities and I do support people eating partially plantbased, I just thought I would comment on a non-plantbased recipe comment.
I'll mention gravy packets again, they really are a hack for anything like this, with traces of dairy being somewhat preferable to actual bones.
The link you provide looks awesome! It seems vegetarian and would be fun to try a Scottish variant of this soup :)
With a gravy packet (usually contain dairy) to provide meatyness I've had some luck making taco filling. You can add them to any variety of hearty soups as well, since they're so similar to beans, although I haven't really found one I love.
There's also a slightly different lentil dish I make sometimes, albeit still Indian-inspired. I basically just add cooked carrots and lentils to a sauteed onion with tomato sauce and curry powder, and then serve with rice. It's quick and doesn't need anything non-perishable if you use cans.