Lentil starvation

[willsie01]

Great fan of lentil/dals, but not found a good way of including them at home. I made a chickpea curry with inspiration from this bbc video: bbcgoodfood.com/videos/ingr...

Could I replace the chickpeas with lentil somehow?

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I use lentils in soups, stews, curries. I'm on a low fodmap diet for IBS and can only have a certain amount of lentils but have found some very good recipes online using tinned lentils.

[Agoodenough]

Hi, you can add orange lentils to any curry just make sure you add extra water as they soak it up.

Also have you ever made your own dhal?

I fry onion, lots of garlic, ginger and a chilli. Then put in the lentils cover with boiling water plus about an inch add more as required. Then when it looks like the lentils are softening I add a teaspoon of curry or cumin, turmeric and salt. You can also squeeze in fresh lemon and a handful of coriander, if you have it. If you've got any ingredient missing just miss it off. (Not lentils obviously 😂)

Ali

[willsie01 in reply to Agoodenough]

Hi Ali, I have tried various dhal recipes, much like you’ve described. Trouble is none of them live up to my memories of how my mum made them maybe I’m just a poor cook or she was very good!

[Agoodenough in reply to willsie01]

Ah that's nice. I bet she was very good. You'll have to keep practicing 🙂I dropped the salt in mine once thought I'd ruined it but it was the best one. So I know salt balances the flavours well but I dont recommend doing that lol