recipe rec

[cimorene]

This "Curried Lentil 'Risotto'" is incredibly, incredibly DELICIOUS and easy to make, albeit rather time-consuming, and cheap (apparently she calls it a 'risotto', quotation marks original, simply because a lot of water is slowly cooked into it, but since that quality is hardly unique to risottos, and risottos are known for containing rice which this, being a lentil-only dish, does not, it seems odd to me). I mean, you can look at the recipe yourself, but you basically roast some dried lentils and then dump in a bunch of spices and some water and stand there stirring them for like half an hour. I didn't time it exactly.

Comments

[flamebyrd]

Yeah, odd that it's called a risotto, since that basically looks like a dhal to me. (In recipe as well as picture.)

Looks tasty, though.

[cimorene]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure there is nothing non-natively-Indian about it. Recipe writer suffered a severe culture-centrism or inability to use Google/Wikipedia, methinks.

[bluesbell]

Mmm, sounds nommy.

[cimorene]

So delicious I couldn't stop eating the first helping and accidentally wolfed twice as much as usual and ended up in a sugar coma for a few hours XD

[bluesbell]

I tried this dish today and it is delicious! I expect the sugar coma to kick in any second.