Lentils 101
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- An overview of lentil types, nutritional characteristics, cooking tips, dried vs. canned, and a recipe for "Brown Rice & Lentils" from "The Best of Chef at Home".
Full recipe: www.lentils.or...
Ingredients:
1 cup (250 mL) brown rice
1 cup (250 mL) dried green lentils
4 cups (1 L) water or chicken broth
½ teaspoon (2 mL) salt
Directions:
In a medium saucepan with a tight fitting lid, combine rice, lentils, water, and salt. Bring everything to a full boil then lower heat, just enough to maintain a slow, steady simmer. Continue cooking until rice and lentils are tender and liquid is absorbed, about 45 minutes. Turn off heat, let stand for a few minutes, and you are ready to serve and share.
Variation: You can add any fresh or dried herbs you like to this dish. Rosemary, thyme and tarragon all work well.
Wow. I just say, this is one of the best food videos I’ve watched all year! Great cook and very charismatic and friendly, excellent information and productions values, great video quality! Well done!
totally agree
I’ve been successfully cooking lentils WITH tomatoes 🍅 AND vinegar in my instant pot. I add other vegetables along with sautéed onion and garlic then cook on high pressure for 3 or 4 minutes.. Let the IP depressurize naturally for 15 minutes and everything is cooked perfectly. Nothing has been undercooked, just tender & delicious. BTW... great video!!!!!
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Maybe it can work cuz they're so small, but I tell ya, one time I cooked black beans with tomatoes in a pressure cooker for HOURS cuz they never softened... Finally I researched and learned this rule... The acid's definitely not a good idea, even if lentils are more forgiving than bigger beans!
Yeah the lentil soup I make with my instant pot I use a can of diced tomatoes. The pressure probably changes how it cooks. My mom tried using a can of tomatoes with her lentil soup that she cooks with a normal stovetop pot and she had trouble getting the lentils to cook.
@@debras3806 That may depend on the beans. I once cooked white northern beans with lemon juice added in my rice cooker to check the claim surrounding acid. They came out just fine. As for lentils, I regularly prepare red lentils in the rice cooker with spinach and lemon juice in order to simulate my favourite dish of sorrel with mashed potatoes. They come out great and all I have to do to puree them, is stir them a bit. I don't even need a blender.
I use them in literally every soup, especially tomato based.
@@jc.1191 More or less the same thing here. I use a mixture of several different types of lentils with steel-cut oats as part of a tomato-based soup I make in the rice cooker ever single day. The claim that lentils will not soften when they are cooked with tomatoes makes no sense to me. The question never occurred to me. Of all the things I cook, lentils are just about the easiest, fastest and least demanding.
I made my lentils in the slow cooker tonight and they were so much better than boiling. They are just not watery, didn't say mushy, but not watery in the slow cooker. Cover and in about 3 hours with half pound, they are perfect. Nothing like peppers, onions, tomatoes in the slow cooker with them and served it on white fully rice. Best meal this week.
I never thought | would be so entertained by lentils lol
I saw a good recipe for lential soup with a whole can of tomato paste and some sausages and onions and carrot
I have had really bad bean soul and really good bean soup it all depends on the ingredants
Agree😍
@@kimzastrow1268 That's sounds pretty damn good, without pig anus of course.
Hahah right!
I cooked lentils with quinoa a couple of days ago. It was so good that I ate quite a bit before the rest of the meal was ready. So good! Don't forget to add chopped onion tossed with a bit of oil beforehand.
so glad to see you on the screen again Chef M!! I used to watch you every sat for a reciepe for sunday dinner with the kids. It was actually the best time i had cooking for my husband Watched too. We would go to the store afterwards, pick up what we needed for the meal and cook it together on sunday ! thank you so much for all this info on lentils! i can not wait to try them, and esspecially sprouted for we eat alot of salad as a starter to all meals. Thankyou agian and i am looking forward to watching more of your videos on here...yes i guess it was in 2012 but im late to the veggie game but never too late to go veggie!!
Love that this is Canadian 🇨🇦 yaayyyy!!!
Canada is the worlds biggest producer of lentils =)
@@akkermansia1488 Unfortunately by farming on a big scale using pesticides.
India has to buy Canadian lentils only because they messed up their own agriculture by some weird programme.
Lilith Rose Intuition: Yeah, me too! And I am from the US😳
The problem with lentils is them actually making it to the table....I keep ‘testing’ them! Great video really informative. Thank you.
too much testing - they will melt away right before your eyes!
Was about to cook mine with tomato sauce but didn't realize I should not cook them together. Nice tip.
There are different opinions out there. I guess some people prefer the toughness.
I've eaten lentils like everyday because they have so much protein and you can put anything with them, but I wish I had watched this a long time ago
If you've got old dry lentils or beans, or you're at high altitude (where the boiling point of water is lower), adding a little baking soda to the water will speed up the cooking time and help the pulses soften properly. I use a teaspoon for a kilo (about 2 pounds) of dry beans or lentils. It also makes some of the nutrients more bioavailable.
Spaghetti with pasta sauce and lentils is really good too.
One more thing, add cumin to your rice and lentils dish, make it a Majadra.
And I also add, masala
No thanks
Yes. Cumin makes everything better.
I add browned onions to make majadra... no cumin or any seasoning other than salt
Lots and lots of onions must be added too.
Thank you for this! I love lentils, too. I love the idea of pureeing them and I never thought of that!!
Love your format and extras that are actually going to make my life, along with that of my clients, infinitely easier. Minute 8:47 and on. The "fly on the wall" view before the credits is golden!!!
Thank you!
Glad I stumbled upon this video. I have a big bag of lentils I have been wanting to make. perfect recipes for them, so easy I am eager to try making. Thanks
Tip: Soaking the lentils for a few or couple hours before cooking decreases bloating and gas compared to when I've cooked them straight up instead--substantially--for me.
That never mattered for me unless the legume was a bean. I stayed in Mexico for a few months and spoke with some ladies working in a cafeteria. They showed me how to make refried beans so they won't give you gas. Less than half a teaspoon of baking soda is all it takes, but it seems that biochemistry doesn't work in my favor when i need it to. 😳
Yes! I am prone to bloating with all legumes and even grains like oats! So I soak all of them and it helps so much!!
@@bitchybitch9517 Yes, adding the baking soda
Thanks for the tip, I never new that. By soaking them, will it reduce the nutrients?
@@bitchybitch9517 You have to add acids or bases after the beans are cooked soft iirc. Otherwise they stay hard, cook forever.
I add diced onion, carrots & diced celery when I cook mine and use vegetable or chicken broth rather than water. I use them for main dish or side dish and makes a great breakfast. I haven't tried the bread yet but intend to soon.
Because this guy is a chef who knows what he's talking about, and knows the nutritional values of foods, herbs, spices, etc., he has my respect already!
I prefer to add salt later, because boiling any legumes in salty water tends to toughen the skins, as you claim acid does. Acidic elements, on the other hand, really heighten the flavor of lentils, which is why many European and Middle Eastern recipes call for vinegar, lemon and/or tomato to be added to cooked lentils.
So now I know why my Mom always added chopped tomato, onion and cilantro at the end, when the lentil were cooked, never at the beginning! Thanks man, Sopa de Lentejas down south here in Mexico is the BOMB! :)
@Narciso Duran Does sound SABROSO! Thanks Narciso for the IRIE tip.:)
I love that stainless steel kitchen sink with all of the windows and that cool copper pipe pot & pan rack! And thanks for the tip about not putting any acidic things in with the lentils until they are soft, I didn't know that.
You can purchase those sinks at restaurant supply stores. My sister and I made a pot rack from galvanized, threaded steel pipe from Home Depot and spray painted it black. It turned out great. I believe the copper pipe would have to be soldered. I watched a youtube video about Tracy Porters Kitchen and they used the commercial stainless steel sink in their farmhouse to save money. It looked awesome.
Lentils 101 is first rinsing the lentils!
GIna baby, then part of the nutritional value is washed away with the water! ;)
@@qualqui No Joe. Rinsing lentils or better - soaking them and then rinsing before cooking removes some of the dirt and anti-nutrients such as physic acid. It's rice that can lose nutrients while rinsing, although more so with white rice.
Yeah, I was wondering why he didn't rinse them. My mom and my grandmother always rinsed them before cooking. You definitely want to sift through them for hard debris like little pebbles and such which can be in there.
One day I hope to pull a double decker lentil sandwich out of an empty drawer as casually as this guy does
Chelslyn Vance 😂
I often find strange sandwiches in various cupboards and drawers at my house! Since I live alone and don't eat wheat products it begs for questions.
I can't believe this video is eight years old and I'm watching it today feeling like it is brand new. I'm a d/a. But I love the video's information on lentils. ❤
Delightful video! Very informative and fun. Thanks.
I use lentils when canning stews. You can not can with flour, milk, or cornstarch so I use lentils, when they get mushy they act as s thickener that helps you give the stew a gravy consistency
My mom cooks lentils with chunks of chicken and potatoes added after and a side of rice man they rock
My favorite thing to do is making lentils with Ham and bacon mixed in. Put the Ham and bacon in at the beginning with about a half cup more of water and don't add any salt. The ham and bacon will salt and flavor them really well. I purposely OVER cook them to make them mushy on purpose. After which add a little chicken stock and let them come back to a simmer. Viola! Ham and Lentil soup that taste amazingly like split pea and ham soup but better! I find it more rich in flavor than split peas.
waoo, so much I did not know about lentil. I am ready to have Lentil /Brown rice.
Used to watch you on Food Network. Always full of good information about the cooking. And, I love lentils :)
I grew up eating lentil and I cook lentil Once a weeks but right now I'm gonna cook it more often😁
I just prepared these Patties and tried with bun, Lettuce, and 🍅 with some spicy sauce. It taste wonderful. Thanks for sharing your recipe. God bless you.
How did You make your lentil patties?Some recipes put a lot of stuff in them,I like simple ideas.Thanks
Thanks man. Good teaching style. New to lentil cooking.
Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce at the end right before you eat them they are so OMG good
Health benefits for lentils are great they are one of the few things that help with my heamarroids
I Cook my lentils with tomatoes in instant pot and it's awesome!
what a cute kitchen area. Love the design
EXCELLENT WATCH. Fantastic info I'm already cooking this for my lunch right now! Thank you
Great video. Thank you for sharing👍
I have just begun watching and I see "Brown Rice & Lentils" recipe---I live on Brown rice and Lentils!!!
Beautifully put together video with a friendly guy ! Also, hats off to the kitchen itself! Love the color of green, the copper pipes holding a million pans...all the hanging friendlies. Love my lentils. I’ve even used them in burritos 👍🏼
I love lentils. Thanks for a great video.
You are right about not missing meat if you eat lentils but the need to combine foods to get a complete protein has been proven to be false. We retain nutrients and combine them at a later time. No need to concern oneself with doing it meal by meal. Our bodies are truly amazing.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Lentils...... and now I love them even more... Thanks for this wonderful "show."
Top quality production
Iam glad k saw your video..I have lentils, and just wanted to know how to cook them..
Well I can’t thank you enough for the enlightenment of this wonderful legume, my favorite of all legumes. Thank you!!
Easy lentil salad: chop some red onions, parsley add olive oil, lemon juice, cumin and enjoy but do not overcook the lentils for salad, you can add any other vegetable you like, green, red peppers, sauteed mushrooms, arugula,...
Please tell me some more good ides to fix lentals , I am very interested ,I would love to Adventure into the unknown really love lentils don't know how to really utilize them everyone has such good ideas on spices to put in them to make them taste better I'm excited to try all kinds of good ideas MT.
Thanks for the tips! I like lentils and often wonder what else to do with them!!
Wonderfull, I found you again, love your lentil recipes, bring it on, my heart thanks you :)
Very informative, thanks.
Fantastic info on lentils. I love them.😄
This video was great! The other day, I looked up everywhere if I could use lentil puree for my tomato sauce because I've never heard of pureeing lentils! (I need to sneak lentils into my foods because I don't like the earthy flavor that much...will see if adding acidity will change the flavor for me). Thank you! Loved this video to see the different ways to eat lentils.
just wanted to share a recipe for lentils. In India even split mung beans or split chick peas , pigeon peas are also referred to as Dal or lentils. this recipe calls for split chickpeas or Chana Dal as it is understood in Indian stores. Wash and soak 2 cups of this Dal for 2 hrs. then cook with just enough water to cook the Dal through but still hold its shape. drain all the excess water ( dont discard it though as it can be used for soups). once the dal is cooled blend it with a handful of freshly grated coconut, a cup of jaggery (sugarcane molasses) or ordinary sugar will also do. half a teaspoon of cardamom powder and a teaspoon of fennel powder. mix it well. keep aside. now knead some whole wheat flour into a soft dough with just flour, water and salt. 1 cup flour, half teaspoon salt and just enough water to knead a soft dough. make about 6 portions of this dough and roll them out to a 6 inch diameter. put the Dal stuffing in the middle of this and fold the sides of the dough over to completely cover the stuffing. now very gently roll this flat like a pizza base. heat a skillet or a pan and cook this flat stuffed bread - if you may call it - on the skillet on both sides till you see brown spots. smear some Ghee (clarified butter ) on the surface as you flip it over on the skillet. this takes just about a minute to cook on both sides. This is a delicious way to enjoy dals as a desert. In India we call it "Puran Poli" there are a lot of youtube videos on how to make Puran poli. This recipe is by far the easiest. by the way the Rice and lentils recipe is the best food when you are down with cold or fever. In India we call it Khichdi. It is the absolute comfort food. Easy to digest when your system is down and still gives a lot of strength to recover fast from the sickness.
I used to watch you on Chef at Home. I thought you were going to have a TV series just on lentils. At any rate, thanks for this video!
Great to be able to cook one pot lentils and rice!!! Thanks so very much for sharing this and the other tips as well!
This was so helpful and so charming! Thanks guys 💛💛💛 Now I know what to do with the jars of lentils in my cupboard!
I'm cooking green lentils the same way you cook rice, 1 part dry and 2 parts water, for about 13 mins. :)
Have you tried an instant pot? Love lentils that way, cooks only a minute!
Kathy Burnett
I use an Instant Pot so would be interested in any recipe book for lentils and the Instant Pot. I am a vegan so especially interested in that side of things. I am going to try his brown rice and lentils that sounds great.
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This was a great video to watch ! Thanks !!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video, thanks.
I wish I had your kitchen 😱
I recently added lime juice rather than vinegar for acidity and brightness at the end of a bean dish. I bet it would go great with the 'earthiness' of lentils....
Chef Michael Smith: I made your Lentil Loaf recipe and it was FANTASTIC! Thank you! Instead of using the muffin tin, I used two bread tins. Question: If I wanted to freeze a portion of this, what is the best way to do so?
Wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and throw in a ziplock bag. It’ll freeze beautifully for months.
Lentil loaf,whats the recipe?
Love this! 💖 Cool vid. Lentils rock!
Just cooked 250g red lentils to use up my fridge and pantry leftovers before the new food arrives.
Sauteed 4 onions and garlic in butter and olive oil. Added garlic, pink salt and a chicken cube.
Boiled the lentils separately to avoid the froth getting into my soup.
Added both together with filtered water. Stripped the leftovers from the chicken carcass and simmered. I threw in a few frozen peas for colour and a few diced potatoes.
Have to say it was both delicious and filling.
I would rather have had celery and carrots but I managed a healthy meal without wasting a scrap of food
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I very much appreciate your position and support all vegans and vegitarians.
I think we may all be starving before too long
We used to buy the Baluga lentils at Bulk Barn here in Toronto but they no longer carry this. They were so great to cook as they maintain their shape. Now, we buy the de Puy lentils on Amazon and they are just as good. All other lentils just fall apart and turn to mush.
The problem I have with canned beans ..... or lentils is the cleansing and sorting process that goes into them. I'm very particular to make sure there is no dirt or rocks in those foods. I don't feel like I can completely rely on the cannery to do the perfect job. I appreciate your lentil 101 video so much. It shows us how, and that's amazing.
The protein combining thing is a myth. Lentils actually are a complete protein as they contain all 8 amino acids which you require.
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Awesome video thanks guys
I love to squeeze fresh lemon juice on my bowl of just cooked lentils.
I do the same! On all my beans! 🙂
Ah, good to see Micheal. It's been a while since I saw his show.
I used to watch it with my Mom about 10 (?) years ago. We both loved it.
@@jbell9179 i was wondering why his voice is so familiar and then i noticed the hair... yes same person i loved watching on tv some fifteen years ago or maybe even more!
Oh yes and I forgot to tell you you do not need to mix legumes with with grains, The author that wrote that back in the 60s took that out of her book after the first edition when she realize she was wrong.
Yeah, that didn't add up with what I have learned. Thanks for this reference.
I never do anyway. Beans and lentils have enough starch as it is! The only reason you'd add rice is to stretch the meal to feed more people.
My favorite, found yellow ones a few years ago
Thank you for the video.
Can’t wait to try out your suggestions!
My takeaway from this video is that I should start storing my sandwiches in a kitchen drawer.
I grew up eating healthy food like lentals, but really don't know how to use them? Thanks for the great ideas I am going to try it, and see what happens 😋
great info on lentils, thank you....looking to sprout lentils this year for the winter season, my first stab at this and I am so excited to find your information....again, Thank you! TheFinder
I would like to know more about how to sprout them.
No matter what I make I always soaking the lentils overnight. Love them so much
Also always add the cumin to cut the gas 😂 😆 😝
wow thank you for sharing
I just turned vegetarian, and this is so helpful.
Me too
I LOVE lentils.
Well thank you so much I enjoyed your video it was incredible I enjoyed it to the point I'm making some right now what a great comfort food and adding the rice to make it a complete protein is just what I was looking for as I am leaning towards vegetarianism again thank you so much these are delicious
Hey “incomplete protein” is a myth and you don’t need to combine foods to get complete protein. Check this out medium.com/@chanapdavis/busting-the-myth-of-incomplete-plant-based-proteins-960428e7e91e
This is a great presentation of lentils.
Try lentils well done in rolled-up flour tortillas.
NOWAY the best lentils come from Canada🙂
This guy is great!
Dude has a magical sandwich drawer!
Indeed! And to think it's only 2" deep! HA!
😍 love lentils. Did you use red wine vinegar?
Good job miss your cooking show
GREAT video. Thank you.
Excellent!!!!
Thanks!
Lentils and curry spices..'dhal'..best food on the planet!
This makes me hungry for lentils, water, and salt.
lol
Don't forget the hot
Love this dude 😎
Live lentals, but I really would like to know how to cook or when to rinse them so they don't cause bloating and gas. Can anyone advise me?
The trick is to eat them more often. Your microbiome takes time to adjust.
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