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Lentils, carrots, miso02.03.10 :: Filed Under :: Comments?
OK, tonight we made a recipe that scared me. There are ingredients I'm nervous about using, and some stuff (namely lentils) that I'm not sure I like.
Here's the recipe (link included):
French Green Lentils with Spinach
Ingredients:
2 cups French green lentils
4 cups packaged fresh spinach
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup julienned carrot
1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped
1/4 cup fresh dill [we didn't have this, used about 1T of dry]
2 cloves diced garlic
salt and pepper, to taste
2 T lemon juice
Place lentils in pan with 6 cups water and teaspoon of salt. Bring to boil then simmer until cooked al dente, about 12 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of cooking liquid. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes, add carrots, cook for 2 minutes more. Add lentils, parsley, dill and reserved cooking liquid. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add spinach and cook until wilted. Salt and pepper to taste.
Quinoa
2 cups Quinoa - cook according to package directions
Carrot Miso Sauce
2 cups carrot chopped
1/2 cup onion chopped
1 T fresh ginger
1 clove diced garlic
1/2 cup white miso
4 cups water
Place carrot, onion, ginger and garlic in pan with water. Bring to boil, then simmer until vegetables are soft. Place everything in blender with miso and process until smooth. Adjust flavor with salt and consistency with water.
No plating instructions were included with the recipe. I put a couple of scoops of quinoa down, added the lentils on top (off center), then drizzled the sauce over all. Another weird omission in the recipe is what to do with the lemon juice. We added it to the lentil/spinach mix after the spinach had been stirred in and wilted. Also, we had to look up how to cook the quinoa. We cooked it in the rice cooker, it's 1:2 grain:water. We cooked extra because we will eat it for breakfast w/nuts and fruit as well.
I didn't know what to expect from this recipe. I didn't know how it would taste. I wasn't sure if I would even like how it tasted, no matter what it was like.
Fast forward to post-meal: This was unexpectedly great. It was a little fiddly for a weeknight dinner (lots of components), but overall it came out extremely tasty. Pants adored it. And there are tons of leftovers, which I will probably combine (the lentils & quinoa) into a patty or loaf of some sort, brown in a nonstick pan and top with the sauce.
In general, the flavor profiles are: earthy lentils, sweet carrots, bright/salty miso, soft fluffy quinoa. If you think you might like this combo, definitely give this recipe a try!
Next time we'll try to remember to take some fotos!
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