What is the best legume and why is it lentils? >Beans BTFO

Love me some lentil soup desu

Also a fan of beans on toast

I like lentils okay, but I'm especially partial to chickpeas and broadbeans.
Native cuisine where I'm from uses a lot of all three and while I like the lentil dishes (which number only two), I prefer the huge cache of dishes using chickpeas or broadbeans (numbering into the dozens).

This is likely because we only have one variety of lentil used natively (the one front and centre in your pic) and it's only available dried whole while chickpeas and broadbeans are available both dry and fresh, both whole and split (less their skins) as well as ground into flour or meal.

The two lentil dishes I'm familiar with is stewed lentils (with or without sausages) and eaten with bread and lentils cooked with noodles.

What other lentils and lentil dishes would you recommend to a relative lentilvirgin?

>>8311504
im a fan of this recipe:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1139652/lentil-rag
it reheats well so i usually make a big batch and freeze most of it
i also make a lot of tarka dal but there are millions of different recipes for it out there

where are you from and what are your country's 2 lentil dishes?

chickpeas tho.

hummus, falafel, chickpea + butternut + red onion salad with tahini dressing. Fuck i want some chick peas right fuckin now.

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>>8311406
I heard someone talkin shit about beans.

>>8311406
lentils make me feel ill if i eat too much of them. I never have that problem with black or kidney beans