Lentil Recipes made with different types of lentils

How to cook Lentils for lentil curry - lentil salads

Lentil recipes are an important part of any vegetarian diet. There are many types of lentils that are used in making lentil curry, lentil salad or lentil soup.

Lentils are widely used in vegetarian cooking for their nutritional value. Lentils are one of the healthiest food ingredients.

Lentils include pulses, beans, dals, legumes. They contain high level of proteins, vitamin B1, dietary fiber, minerals, iron ect. They are rich in protein next to soya. Lentils are recommended for diabetics.

Lentils are used whole or split. Whole lentils are more nutririous because of their husks. When the husk - skin is removed from the whole lentil and the lentil is split, the split lentil is refered to as dal, daal or dhal in Indian languages. The cooked lentil recipe, a dish either made with whole or split lentil is also called as Dal.

So the Indian Dal which you get in restaurants is made with a variety of whole or split lentil. The dals are refered according to the variety of lentil that is split.

The lentils are used to make a main dish such as Khichadi - a rice and lentil dish, to make a side dish such as mung bean curry or to make a snack as fried chickpeas.

The cooking time of lentils is short. The split lentil, that is called dal, cooks still faster. It is combined with rice as it has similar cooking time such as in Khichadi . Cooked lentils become thick so water is used to thin it.

How to cook lentils? Some Indian Lentil Recipes for you

• Types of lentils - whole and split lentil varieties
• Dal Fry - serve with rice and roti - bread.
• Spinach Dal - Palak Dal - Spinach and lentil curry, a yummy accompaniment for rice or bread.
• Sambar - Vegetable/Lentil dish-Serve with Idli, Plain Steamed Rice and Dosa
• Chickpea recipes- More about chickpeas.
• How to skin chickpeas - Instructions for Removing chickpea skins
• How to cook chickpeas. - Easy and simple way to cook chickpeas.
• Fried Chickpeas - healthy snack
• Chickpea Curry - A yummy curry
• Rasam - serve as appetizer, soup, and also with Plain Steamed Rice
• Mung Bean Curry - Lentil curry to serve with rice/roti/bread. Can use other beans/lentils too.
• Mung Beans and Rice Dish - Khichadi. - Quick One Dish Meal.
• Dahi Vada - A cool snack with urad dal (white lentil) and yogurt.

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