Lentil Recipes
Lentils - one of
the Healthiest Foods.
Lentil recipes are an
important part of any vegetarian diet.
Lentils are widely used in vegetarian cooking for their nutritional
value. Lentils are one of the healthiest food
items.
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.
The variety of lentils
includes:
English Name - Indian Name
- Red lentil - Masoor
- Green lentil – Moong bean, or Mung bean or
GreenGram
- Black lentil - Black Gram, Whole Urad Bean
- Chickpea - Bengal Gram, Chana
- Pigeon pea, Yellow lentil – Toor, Toovar, Arahar
- Kidney bean - Rajma
- Cow pea, black eyed pea - Lobia or chowli
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 or daal in
Indian languages. The cooked lentil recipe, 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.
- Split black lentil – urad dal, white lentil
- Split red lentil – masoor dal
- Split green lentil – moong dal, mung dal, green
gram dal
- Split yellow lentil – toovar dal, toor dal, tur
dal, arahar dal
- Split chickpeas - chana dal, bengal gram dal
The lentils are used to make a main dish such as Khichadi, 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, 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.
The widely known Indian Recipes
using Lentils are:
Dal
Fry - serve with rice and roti – bread.
Sambar
- Vegetable/Lentil dish-Serve with Idli, Plain
Steamed Rice and
Dosa
Chickpea
recipes- More about chickpeas.
Rasam
- serve as appetizer, soup, and also with Plain
Steamed Rice
Mung
Bean Curry- Serve with rice/roti/bread. Can use
other beans/lentils too.
Mung
Beans and Rice Dish - Khichadi. - Quick One Dish
Meal.
How
to cook chickpeas. - Easy and simple way to cook
chickpeas. Fried Chickpeas - healthy snack Dahi Vada - A cool snack with urad dal (white lentil) and yogurt.
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