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Can I cook lentils in a rice cooker?
Can I cook lentils in a rice cooker? Would I need to adjust my lentils/water ratio?
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When “sorting” lentils, what exactly am I looking for?
When a recipe calls for lentils, sorted and rinsed, what am I looking for? I've heard debris, such as leaves or sticks, but also "bad" lentils. Is there anything else I should be looking for before ...
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How long can I store cooked lentils?
I love lentils mixed with onions, spinach and tuna in the morning, unfortunately I am having a really hard time finding cheap canned lentils in my area. So I wonder, if I cook a big batch of dried red ...
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How does adding baking soda to soaking beans/lentils reduce the gas they make you have?
I've heard a few times that adding a pinch of baking soda to the water you use to soak beans/lentils in, reduces the gas it makes you have. I've not do any measured experiments myself, but I have ...
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Can Calcium Chloride be Used to Prevent Lentils from Bursting?
In Modernist Cuisine, they recommend using calcium chloride when cooking beans to help preventing them from bursting:
Beans often burst after being cooked in ordinary tap water. To avoid ...
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What would give Swiss Chard a gritty texture?
I made Swiss chard rolls last night and when we would bite into them there would be this gritty bite once in a while, almost like biting into a small gravel. Swiss chard itself has a gritty texture ...
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Boiling lentils in chicken stock?
I have some decent chicken stock that needs using and I am making a takka dhal tonight. I preboil my lentils, and was wondering if I boiled them in the chicken stock, whether or not they would soak up ...
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What made these red lentils 'brick' together?
The lentils in the above photo are raw. They did not form a solid block when they were dry, but after I poured a bit of water in, they suddenly did this.
Obviously, they need a bit of washing. Red ...
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how to cook orange lentils in the microwave?
How to cook orange lentils in the microwave?
I once tried and it ended up as a watery mash. What time, power, amount of water (any other things to take into account), should I use to avoid them being ...
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How does lentils' nutritional profile change in germinating lentils in water?
By the term "terminating lentils in water" I mean a similar thing to sprouting thing such as alfalfa in water. The crux difference is that lentils do not really sprout, they germinate because their ...
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Best way to cook lentils?
Everything I have read says that you do not need to soak lentils like you would beans. Unfortunately the last several times I have cooked lentils they have seemed a little chalky.
Should I be ...
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'Phorons' for Dahls
I love dahl. In India (where my folks were from) there are an almost infinite set of combinations of dahls and corresponding phorons* (spice-seasoned anointing oil/ghee)
But I only know a handful of ...
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Why refresh lentils before making lentil soup
I recently made lentil soup from a recipe that involved bringing the lentils to a boil and refreshing them before a more prolonged cooking together with the aromatics.
The soup turned out great, but ...
