This is everything I made using lentils 🌱
Five types of lentils, seven results.
I started by washing and soaking the lentils overnight.
The next day: rinse, drain, and the experiments begin.
1. Green lentil bread
2. Red, yellow, and black lentils blended into Burmese tofu
3. A failed batch of lentil wraps (too thin to hold)… but no waste, I turned them into more tofu. Tried again using a thicker batter, and results were lentil wraps that hold their shape!
4. Crispy yellow lentil crackers, baked until golden.
5. Black lentil milk… I was curious too try… my face in the video tells if it was a success (and did you see my blender spill on my laptop? 🫣)
6. French lentil plant balls, one of my favorites.
7. Creamy dahl, made from all the leftovers at the end, including the pulp from the black lentil milk.
✨ Proof that lentils can become endless dishes if you’re curious enough to try.
💬 Which recipe do you want first? Let me know in the comments!
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This is everything I made using lentils. Five types, seven different results. I start by washing and soaking the lentils. The next day, I rinse and drain. First, I mix green lentil bread and leave it to rice. Then, I blend red, yellow, and black lentils and use most of it to make Burmese tofu to set in the fridge. 1 hour in, my bread is ready to bake. I’m using the rest of the lentil mixtures to make wraps, but it was too thin and I couldn’t make it work. I still used it to make more tofu. I tried to save time by blending everything at once, but learned my lesson and started over for the wraps. Next up, a crispy yellow lentil crackers. While that bakes, I’m making black lentil milk. You can probably tell I would not make it again. I also use French lentils to make one of my favorite plant balls. Finally, I use everything that is left to make a creamy doll. And at the end of the day, I’ve got a full table to be proud
30 Comments
Lentil bread recipe, please!
Thank you for showing us the process, including the failures. Keep up the fantastic work!
We use all of these lentils in daily cooking here in India! Amazed to see tofu being made out of it?! Wow!
Can you drop the recipe???❤❤❤❤
Amazing!!!!
Balls and Daal please 😊
I like making a stew/soup with lentils. There are lentil chips that I buy. I've tried making them with red lentils a number of times. But the lentils become darker and bitter. I'm still hopeful that I'll make them and they turn out well some time in the future though.
who gonna eat that all
French lentil plant balls please!! Thanks for sharing all your experiments. They inspire me to try new things.
I made red lentil and quinoa wraps and they held up really well! Maybe try that beach time 😊
I want those French lentil plant balls.
So good! You should make a longer video sharing all those recipes!!!
Your channel is so unique and teaches me loads! Keep it up 👏
The lentil crackers are originally papads, there are lentil drinks from the lentil water, also done either chickpeas, long before ‘aquafaba’.
You can make Andhra pesarattu, which are lentil dosa (wraps), which is think you were trying to make in the video.
That tofu looks good thanks for sharing!
Just a suggestion. Next time you want to make lentil wraps, please soak some rice (preferably par boiled but even the normal cooking rice will do) and some chickpea lentil aka channa dal along with whatever other lentils you are soaking to make lentil wraps. <Adding rice helps make the wraps more crispy, more tasty and easier to remove from the pan> Once you have grinded them into a batter, oil the pan (if non stick) or use a non stick pan, make the pan hot, and spread out a laddle of batter like you would for a pancake or wrap. Make the flame medium and let it cook and flip to other side. Hope this helps. 👍👍
Please share the recipies!!! I realllly love lentils❤
I needed this channel in my life wow❤🎉
Love your channels. I have a recommendation for a lesser know north Indian dish called "moong ki goli" it's made from soaked split mung beans. Try it.
Need these amazing recipes
Dosa (South Indian pancakes with fermented lentils and fermented rice)
Would love to see wrap recipe
I don’t know what most of that means 😢. I understand the words… I just don’t attach them to beans 😅.
I don’t think we ever used more than navy and kidney beans growing up. I added chickpeas and also mixed medley sort of beans to chilli as an adult.
French lentil balls please
So great. I would love to have all the recipes ❤️
Plant ball recipe please! ❤
This is quite awesome!
Please share the recipe for the crackers 🙏🏻
Could I use prepped ready lentils from a tin?
All the yummy recipes 😋 😍 please
Try tofu chilla: take 1 part unhusked mung splits or whole mung beans, ½ part chana dal, and ¼ part urad dal. Wash and soak them together for 6–8 hours. Blend with a little water, salt, green chili, and a pinch of cumin powder, then let the batter rest for 1–2 hours. Add grated tofu and make thin, crispy chillas (crepes) with some oil. They taste amazing with green chutney and imli chutney.