HOW TO COOK LENTILS

HOW TO COOK LENTILS                  

Lentils are so easy to cook, you could cook them blind folded with ear plugs.   And they great part is their very healthy food choice.   I like to treat them as a seasoning to my food dishes.  I add them to soups,  cold lentils are great sprinkled on salads, use 1/4 cup as a filler to add to a left over meat dish, or create your own idea to make your dish great with lentils.  Legumes is really a funny word.  I use to pronouns it just for fun Le Gummys  or Le goooms.   
Lentils come is a wide varieties of colors, from brown, yellow, red, green and even black.  And there are many more varieties world wide.   

 2 (1/4 cup) of Lentils.
2 cups water.  

Bring water to a boil, then turn down to med-low, stir.  

Now this is where you got to use your sense of taste to tell when their done.  

1. If you bite into the lentil and it taste very hard and maybe breaks into hard bits.  Nope not yet.
2. When you bite into the lentil it not hard, but not mushy.  Kind of al denti or firm to the bite, but not hard or crunchy.    
 And here is something to consider if you add cooked lentils into a meat dish and cook it longer the lentils will hold up.   They are really good at holding their shape.  

Now if you want to cook more Lentils like say 1 cup, use  three cups water. 

When I have left over spaghetti meat or taco meat in the freezer.  I will usually cook up a little bit of lentils and mix it into the meat and make into a soup for a quick meal.  


Have fun creating your own Lentil  adventure.