Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, turkish style green lentils. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
It's a salad - we can play around with ingredients and their quantities. If we want more tomato, we can add more tomato into the green lentil salad recipe - our choice. I hope you like the Green Lentil Soup, please do comment and let us know what you thought of it. If you are after more lentil recipes, do take a look at the Red Lentil Soup (the one found in Turkish restaurants), and also Baba Anne's wonderful recipe for Green Lentils with Eriste (Pasta).
Turkish Style Green Lentils is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Turkish Style Green Lentils is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook turkish style green lentils using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish Style Green Lentils:
- Take 1 lb (454 gr) dry green lentils ( I used Goya brand)
- Get 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup Finely Chopped carrots
- Prepare 1 Onion
- Take 2 clove Garlic
- Make ready 1 cup Low sodium Chicken broth
- Get Water
- Get Salt and pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Dry mint
- Take 1 tbsp Tomato paste
Green lentil stew is one of the basic home dishes of Turkish cuisine. Like lots of traditional recipes green lentil stew is also cooked in different ways in almost every house. Some add potatoes and carrots and some doesn't. If you have it at hand you can chop some celery stalks also for example.
Instructions to make Turkish Style Green Lentils:
- Wash your lentils, soak in hot water until you finish with onion and carrots
- Chop your onion , heat 1 spoon oil in a deep pot, stir until onion until change its color, add one spoon of tomato paste, stir.
- Add your carrot continue stirring, add lentils, about 3 minutes
- Add your broth, boil some water in a kettle, add water until over lentils, ( reserve some water in kettle we may need more water later , ) add your salt and pepper and mint, stir . take a spoon and taste, if you need more salt add more.
- You let lentils boil , until soften, about 20 minutes, in this point you may taste , to check tenderness . If soft and need some water add more. After that You are done!
Some add potatoes and carrots and some doesn't. If you have it at hand you can chop some celery stalks also for example. Then add carrots, red bell pepper, potatoes and lentils. Stir the pot well and then add in turmeric, cumin, paprika and tomato paste. Salt, vinegar, citrus too early in the cooking process can impede the lentils from softening reaching peak tenderness.
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