lentil soup [Greek] [pressure cooker]
Ignatios Souvatzis
Lentil soup
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((Greek, in case youd didn't guess) family recipe,
adapted for pressure cooker by myself)
Ingredients:
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* 250g fine lentils
* 1.25 l of water
* 3 big carrots (or more small)
* 1 small to medium tomato
* a few dried bay leaves
* a few cloves of garlic
* 1 teaspoon of salt
* olive oil
* bread
optional
* vinegar
* feta cheese
* olives
* pepperoni
Put the water and lentils into the pressure cooker.
Peel and slice the carrots, and put them into the cooker.
Peel and mince the garlic, put it into the cooker.
Dice the tomato (small pieces), add it (and the juice) to the soup.
Throw a few bay leaves into the soup.
Close the cooker, heat it to the 2nd ring, then switch off the heat.
Leave it until it's depressurized by cooling down enough (say, half
an hour - a full works, too). Open the cooker.
Add a teaspoon of salt - maybe a bit more (to taste).
Add about a small cup of oil (and stir).
Serve.
At the table, offer (some) feta, bread, olives, pepperoni and vinegar
for those who want to add it. Pepperoni, olives and feta are optional,
vinegar half optional, sliced bread is a must.
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Jim Kingdon
> adapted for pressure cooker by myself)
Ah yes. When I was in India I got a cookbook of dal recipes (dal is
just the Hindi word for lentils, although the varieties and how they
are used will vary from lentils in, say, Greek cooking).
Anyway, I only later reflected on how this dal cookbook might provide
an excuse for my boyfriend to run out and buy a pressure cooker. When
I asked whether he had a pressure cooker, he said "not yet, but it
would be good to have as I can use it for flasking orchids".
Ignatios Souvatzis
>> ((Greek, in case youd didn't guess) family recipe,
>> adapted for pressure cooker by myself)
> Anyway, I only later reflected on how this dal cookbook might provide
> an excuse for my boyfriend to run out and buy a pressure cooker.
> I asked whether he had a pressure cooker, he said "not yet, but
In this case, don't mention that you can use about 1.5l of water, cook
for about an hour with very low heat (just enough to keep them slightly
boiling), and add the carrots and maybe the garlic only after the first
half of an hour, if you don't have a pressure cooker.
I like it because I can heat it up, switch off and forget (e.g., go
shopping or to the hairdresser).
-is