How To Cook Red Lentils

Hi there! I'm Matt from the underground cookery school. And today I'm going to do a video cookery lesson for you. Hi! I'm going to show you how to cook red lentils.

I've got about 40 grams worth of red lentils which is good for about a portion and all you really need to do is just sling them in a pan and like that. Over here I'm just going to, I'm going to cover them with water and then go probably an inch further. Now, just keep an eye on those because what will happen is the lentils will absorb quite a lot of the moisture so if you do need to top up the water so be it, but let it bubble away for I reckon about 10-15 minutes and just keep tasting them until you are satisfied with the texture.

So we're going to come back to those in a second. Those have been in the hob for about 12 minutes actually, and I'm just going to drain them or pass them through a sieve just to get rid of all that moisture and now I'll plate up. Not really the most grand of dishes.

There we go. Now, lentils work really well with curries, so something like a (sounds like: dial or dowl) for example. They're great as a vegetarian option, you know maybe stuffing them, using them to stuff some mushrooms, also very good for thickening up soups but it's a good all around sort of vegetarian supplement.

A little bit of olive oil there, a little bit of black pepper and there you have how to cook red lentils.