Recipes Cooking: lentil

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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Keerai Kootu Spinach and Lentil Curry for Rice

Greens are very good for health when combined with dhals the recipe becomes rich in iron, calcium and protiens. If you are under healthy diet make this recipe often.

Ingredients

Spinach chopped-2cups

Cooked Moong dhal-1cup

Onion chopped-1

Tomatoes chopped-1

Mustard seeds-1tsp

Chilli powder-2tsp

Turmeric-1tsp

Salt to taste

Method

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds when crackels add onions and spinach saute well then add the tomates and cook for a min. Add cooked dhal and some water, then add the red chilli powder, turmeric and salt. Allow to boil for 5 mins. Serve hot with rice or Roti.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Red Lentil Kofte Mercimek Köftesi

This vegetarian kofte is one of the most popular appetizers of Turkish cuisine.

1 cup red lentil
1/2 cup fine bulgur
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cups of water
1 medium onion, very finely chopped
1 tsp cumin
1 tbsp tomato + red pepper paste (if you cannot find red pepper paste you can use 1 tbsp tomato paste)
~1 tsp salt
juice of half or 1 lemon (depends on how you like it: sour or not so sour)
1/3 bunch parsley, finely chopped
1/2 bunch green onion, finely chopped
curly leaf lettuce

-Wash lentils and boil them in 2 cups of water until it almost soaks the water.
-Once you turn it off, add bulgur and salt. Mix once and cover to let the bulgur expand. Let it cool off.
-Heat oil in a pan and add the onion (not the green one!) and cook until soft.
-Add tomato paste and cook for another 1-2 minutes.
-Add cumin and stir once you turn it off.
-Add this to the lentils which should be cool by now.
-Add half of finely chopped parsley, green onion, and lemon juice to the lentils. Mix all well.
-Take walnut size pieces and give them kofte shape in your hands.
-You can either place lettuce leaves on a serving plate and put koftes on top as in the picture, or serve koftes and lettuce leaves separately. However, when you eat them you should wrap each kofte in a lettuce leaf.