Lentils, leguminous annual herbs, stems trailing, leaflets lanceolate, flowers white or purple, pods long oval, flat, slightly curved. Young pods are common vegetables, depending on the color of the flowers are divided into two categories of red and white flowers, pods of the color of green and white, light green, pink and purple red and other colors, smooth and shiny, hard, thin and brittle seed coat, chewing beans, full of particles for the best. The main use of white lentils in medicine. Lentils contain saponins and hemocyte lectin can lead to food poisoning, cooking must be done very cooked side.

Lentil cake

Ingredients: 500 grams of lentils, 375 grams of sugar, 200 grams of bean paste filling, a little red food.

Practice

1 lentils washed, soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes, until the skin is soft, remove the skin, put into a large bowl, filled with water, a few drops of alkaline water, into the cage steamed until crispy, removed and cooled, with the water with a mesh sieve rubbed into the mud, wrapped into the white cloth to dry the moisture, lentils that is into the powdered mud, can be put into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

2 take half of the sugar with food coloring red.

3 lentil mud on both sides with a cloth clip, press into 33 cm long, 20 cm wide long thin slice, flat on the board, remove the white cloth, cut into two pieces with a knife, one paved with bean paste, to be spread evenly, and then another piece of lentil mud cover, and then paved with red sugar on the top, and then finally paved with sugar snap, that is, the formation of the five layers, eaten when cut into diamond-shaped pieces can be. Lentil cake production essentials lentil sand, bean paste filling should be evenly spread, cut pieces should be the same size.

Dry-fried lentils

Instruments: 150 grams of minced meat, 400 grams of lentils; 4 dry chili, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, mustard, pepper, garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate each moderate.

Practice

1 lentils tear off the old tendons at both ends, break into two sections, wash, dry.

2Heat 250 grams of oil, put the lentils, fried until the lentil skin wrinkled, with a strainer out of the oil.

3Take another pot to heat, use 1 tablespoon of oil to burst the dried chili peppers, peppercorns, mustard greens, garlic, pour in the soy sauce, lentils and stir-fry, turn off the heat when the lentils are cooked, put salt and monosodium glutamate, and stir-fry well.

Lentil Lean Meat Soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of lentils, peel 1/4, 400 grams of lean pork, salt, ginger.

Practice

1 cut the pork into pieces and wash, peel to scoop, ginger slices;

2 put the ingredients in 1 together in the pot, add water, first boil with high heat, change to a small fire boil 1 ~ 1.5 hours, add the right amount of salt can be.

This soup can clear away heat and dampness, and solve the spleen deficiency and dampness.

Lentil stewed noodles

Ingredients: 250 grams of lentils, 250 grams of noodles, 75 grams of sliced meat, green onion, ginger, 1 small spoon of garlic, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, moderate amount.

Practice

1 lentils at both ends of the tendon, break two sections; noodles cut into about 10 cm long . Segment.

2Heat 3 tablespoons of oil, sautéed chopped green onion, ginger and then put into the meat, sautéed until the meat whitened and poured into the soy sauce, soy sauce sauce boiled into the lentils, stir-frying until the lentils were bright green, add water (slightly below the lentils).

3 open the pot, the noodles shake loose, evenly and loosely yards in the lentils, cover the pot, reduce the heat to simmer for a few minutes, open the lid from the side of the pot to see how well cooked lentils and the amount of soup. When the soup left a little, lentils cooked and soft, turn off the heat, put salt, monosodium glutamate, garlic, mix with chopsticks.