Crushed Puy Lentils Alongside Tahini & Cumin

October 21, 2017

We've been Ottolenghi-clubbing for a good, long while now (our showtime coming together was Feb 2015!) - it's a nifty agency to sample a hit of Yotam's wonderful dishes without driving yourself crazy amongst preparation. This fourth dimension to a greater extent than or less was equally wonderful equally always - nosotros had an aubergine, courgette together with yoghurt upside-down cake, dark miso gluey rice amongst peanuts together with broccoli (both from Ottolenghi's Christmas column) together with saffron, engagement together with almond rice from Plenty More addition contributions from me together with Cindy. See our facebook page for the amount rundown.

I decided to brand this crushed lentil dish from Ottolenghi's Ottolenghi's dips together with spreads, together with this i sounded perfect. It combines a relatively elementary procedure (maybe forty minutes all up) amongst a superb trial - the lentil mix is delicious, amongst a wonderful  thick texture together with a overnice garlicky, cumin flavor on transcend of the nutty lentils. This is a perfect introduction to Ottolenghi - fancy together with delicious but without a lot of the complicated methods or strange ingredients that characterise a lot of Otto's dishes. We'll definitely brand this again.

Crushed puy lentils amongst tahini together with cumin
(via Ottolenghi's Guardian column)

250g puy lentils
30g butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
iv garlic cloves, minced
1.5 teaspoons dry reason cumin
iii tomatoes, cutting into a 1cm dice
25g coriander leaves, roughly chopped
5 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
common salt together with pepper
one-half a ruby onion, sliced finely
iv hard-boiled eggs
olive oil

Bring a medium saucepan of H2O to the boil together with throw inwards the lentils. Cook for twenty minutes or hence until tender together with hence drain together with laid aside.

Melt the butter amongst the olive petroleum inwards a frying pan. Add the garlic together with cumin together with railroad train for a infinitesimal or two. 

Throw inwards most of the coriander (reserve some for garnishing), all of the tomatoes together with the lentils. Cook for some other few minutes together with hence stir through the tahini together with lemon juice, nigh one-half a loving cup of H2O together with heaps of common salt together with pepper.

Turn the rut downward together with railroad train on depression for 5 minutes or so, stirring. Roughly mash the lentils amongst a tater masher until some of them suspension upward together with you lot larn a overnice thick consistency. 

Serve, amongst a drizzle of extra olive oil, garnishes of coriander together with onion together with the eggs. We had ours amongst bread, but it's hearty plenty to consume on its own.