Category: Pulses – Beans, Lentils
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Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin Seeds
When I first moved to Sydney about 15 years ago, there was a hole in the wall Indian eatery up at my local shops. I’m calling it an an eatery because it wasn’t as grand as a cafe or restaurant, just a un-renovated shop with a few tables and chairs, offering a small selection of…
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Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup Recipe
This is my family’s favorite split pea soup, it’s an old-fashioned vegetarian classic from the Moosewood Cookbook. There’s nothing fancy about it. Hearty, thick and filling – served with some good bread it’s all you need to make a meal. Start early because the split peas take a few hours simmering on the back burner.…
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Easy Refried Black Beans Recipe for Tacos
We eat a lot of refried beans at our house. Tacos or burritos are one of the most kid friendly vegetarian meals going. A taco spread is an instant party and like all good party food it has the added advantage of allowing kids to build their own meal. I’ve seen children make a taco…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
It’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew Recipe
The two can bean dinner is a staple of vegetarian home cooking. You can never have too many quick meals up your sleeve using a couple of cans of beans. It’s fast and convenient and if you compare, preparing a meal of beans and rice to ordering and picking up takeaway, the canned beans and…
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Sensational Adzuki Bean Dal | Madhur Jaffrey Recipe
Adzuki beans are not something I associate with Indian food so when a friend first told me about this adzuki bean dal I thought it was some kind of macrobiotic hippy/ Indian fusion dish. In fact adzuki beans are used in all over India where they are known as red chori beans. I’m glad…
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Aromatic Vegan Thai Red Lentil Soup by Yotam Ottolenghi
Finally, Sydney has a bit of a cold snap, making it feel like a proper winter at last. In the cooler months, there’s no such thing as too much soup. This Thai red lentil soup from Yotam Ottolenghi is wonderfully aromatic, rich and warming. I’ve doubled the original recipe because I found it didn’t quite…
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Easy Vegan Greek Lentil Soup Recipe
Last weekend, Sydney was buffeted by a one of those once-in-a-hundred-year storms that seem to happen every few years now. The coastal suburbs took the brunt of the bad weather while, in the west, we escaped the worst of the damage and the storms and bad weather moved south to poor Tasmania, where the full…
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Nourishing Red Lentil and Rice Soup Recipe | Vegan Friendly
It was Mother’s Day on Sunday and Sydney was shrouded in smoke from three days of burn-offs in the Blue Mountains. As a result of the smoke haze, I developed a hacking cough. I come from a family on my father’s side with a history of tuberculosis and other lung diseases. My great grandfather died…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 