How do i make these taste good?

>>7396694
Seasoning. Meat....

Or just, you know, shitposting.

I cook mine in a pressure cooker with tomato paste and of course water. Then I season with some msg based powder, garlic powder, chili powder, and Italian seasoning.

>>7396694
With fatty bacon & mirepoix
Or I like them spicy with cumin & cayenne

>>7396694
>Cook for ~45 minutes in saltwater
>Strain an put aside
>sweat some cubed bacon in a bit of fat
>add diced some onion and cook until tender
>add lentils
>season to taste with salt, pepper and a little vinegar
Eat with bread dumplings.

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>>7396694
http://sanpasqualskitchen.com/lentejas-con-chorizo-2/

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I eat mine with some feta cheese. And I like it.

>>7397380
Mexican food gives me diarrhea

>>7396694

Throw them away and get a better side.

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use them in stews...

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>>7398459
Or in salads.. They take pretty much any seasoning...

>>7396694

Lentil soup dawg

When I was a kid, my Salvadorian baby-sitter made them into a garlic and spinach soup. Extremely delicious especially with buttered toast.

I made a halfway decent vegetarian chili using lentils and split peas. Sure, some fag is going to say it wasn't chili, but he's a fag, almost as much as you are, OP, but on some level he's right - it's not really the same, but it was definitely good.

>>7396694
Salt.

Lots of it.

>>7398466
Someone please explain why lentils would contain rocks.
My teeth hurt just reading these steps.

>>7397902
bait?

>>7398520
Sometimes small rocks get picked up when harvesting things like beans and lentils. They're usually sifted out when they get processed but sometimes small rocks that are the same size/shape as the beans can get through and get packaged along with the finished product.

That's why you should always sift through dry beans and lentils before you cook them.

>>7398536
I don't think I'm ready for that level of responsibility.
My OCD will kick in and I'll spend an hour checking each lentil.
This thread seemed like a good pointer for cooking the lentils someone left me when they moved away too. Fuck.

cook them in stock

>>7398544
All you need to do is dump them into a large bowl or on a cookie sheet or something like that and shove them around for a minute or two looking for anything that doesn't look normal.

I can count on one hand all the times I've actually found a rock or stick in a bag of beans in my entire life. Especially lately since they use xrays and lasers or whatever shit like that to sorts them electronically at the processing plant.

>>7396694
http://www.theppk.com/2009/11/snobby-joes/

>>7398544
>My OCD will kick in and I'll spend an hour checking each lentil.

ive never found anything in lentils. ive found perhaps 4 small, black, pumice-type rocks in pinto beans. that's it.

>>7398520
>Someone please explain why lentils would contain rocks.

I thought lentils didn't have rocks too. Then I bit down on one. Now i have to carefully check my lentils before cooking, on a white plate. Do this with beans as well. As an extra precaution I chew softly. But it's all worth it.

>>7399866
Cracked a tooth on a rock in my lentils. I'm extremely paranoid now.