Category: Pulses – Beans, Lentils
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One-Pot Spinach Chana Dhal: Healthy and Delicious
I’ve been going through my old recipe folder and unearthing old recipes from my collection of old newspaper clippings, handwritten recipes and photocopies. In the days before online recipes, any home cook worth anything had one of these folders or notebooks stuffed with family favourites and a lot of recipes that were firmly in the…
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Iraqi White Bean Stew
This white bean stew from Meera Sodha makes a great midweek dinner. If you have some canned white beans on hand you can get get dinner on the table in half an hour or so. Simple, sustaining and delicious – you can’t go wrong with that. Note: If you have some of the spice mix…
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Vegetarian Black Bean Chilli Recipe – Easy and Kid-Friendly
This recipe comes from Smitten Kitchen where it started its life a filling for vegetarian burritos and then morphed into a black bean and vegetable bake with a layer of cheese grilled on top. I prefer to serve it as a chilli bowl with loads of toppings and corn chips on the side. I first…
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Vegetarian Bolognese: Lentil Ragu Recipe You’ll Love
In general I’m not a fan of vegetarian bolognese style pasta sauces. There are so many fantastic authentically vegetarian pasta sauces… why would you bother? However, Sydney was in the midst of a dreary midwinter slump, it was gloomy and cold outside and this slow cooked lentil ragu seemed like just thing to banish the…
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Ina Garten’s Legendary Lentil Soup Recipe with Sofrito Flavor Base
I’ve got a quite a few lentil soups on this site and when I first came across this recipe, my first thought was, do I really need to try another version of lentil soup. My second thought was I can’t believe there’s a legendary Ina Garten lentil soup recipe that I’ve never even heard of……
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Quick Northern Style Chickpeas Recipe with Fresh Green Chutney
I’ve been making this simple chickpea dish a lot lately from one of my latest cookbook acquisitions Madhur Jaffrey’s Vegetarian India. One of the pantry staples in my vegetarian dinner rotation is the humble can of chickpeas and I’ve used A LOT of cans of chickpeas over the years. This recipe uses the liquid from…
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Alison Roman’s Dilly Bean Stew Recipe: Comforting One-Pot Meal
For the past six months my partner has been away for most of the time, so I’ve been home alone with my teenage son. On the food front my son and I often part ways about on what is most desirable to eat – there is only so much noodles and pasta I can handle.…
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Frugal Chana Masala Recipe for Worker’s Curry | Meera Sodha
I wouldn’t say I’m enjoying the high fruit and vegetable prices at the moment but it has given me an re-newed appreciation of the range of veggies we’ve been used to having at our fingertips for so long. In this age of relative scarcity (even frozen vegtables are hard to come by) I’m wasting way…
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Traditional Turkish Red Lentil Soup Recipe with Aleppo Pepper Infused Oil
This is a quick post of a soup that I discovered on Ozlem Warren’s Instagram account which showcases the very best of Turkish food. In keeping with the cost of living crisis we are endlessly being told about this is a simple, frugal meal. What sets it apart is the knob of butter melted in…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 