I was writing in my Lentil Blog today, with lentils by my side for get inspiration and company...
Sudenly I started to eat raw lentils, one by one and I thought that we always eat them cooked... with water and other ingredients. I remember a mexican snack made with peas, just like peanuts, that are salt peas, crunchy and one of my favorites, an other one is lentils with chily, crunchy and I dont know how they prepare them but I love them.
So, I just took the lentils, oil, salt, chili and make experiment with that...here are the pictures.
I am improving my cooking skills. In this second try the rice look like rice (little burn) and I cannot reach the amazing flavor that my mom has, but this one still eatable. Maybe later...
Ingredients
Fry the onion
Put in the microwave the lentils, check them because
sometimes they jump outside the cup making a big mess.
This time I didn´t wash the rice, but I put more oil than the needed so
I never heard the popcorn sound again (look recipie at blog)
I noticed that it started to change color so I spill the water,
lentils and onion inside, before rice burn.
Wait until it looks like this
Yei!! It looks like rice... darker but rice, no risoto =D
This is how it looked. I have to admit that the first one tasted much better, this one look good,
but I will be trying until get the perfect jadra.
Aires de Campo is one mexican company founded in 2001 for connecting organic producers to make new products for the brand. They try to be a direct canal between farmers and consumers, for getting certifications. It started with 5 employees looking for the farmers... Now the organic network is integrated by more than 80 producers and each day they have new products in lower costs.
First company plant located in Santa María Insurgentes 1945
Grupo Bimbo was founded in Mexico in 1945, starting with cellophane wrapped large and small white loafs of bread and toasted. Three years later they introduced 7 products more... Now a days after 70 years its the most important bakery company on the world. Is present in 22 countries of America, Asia and Europe, it has close to 10,000 products and more than 100 brands.
I was thinking what to make with lentils, for sure the first idea was separating the lentils by color and tone, but after half an hour of separating lentils I get crazy and decided to experiment with other thing. I noticed that bigger amounts of lentils give you shadows and volume, so I started to play. I got this.
My hand playing with lentils
Mole and Alps with lentils (with New York background)
Always industrial process are complicated, big machines... big amounts of products just changing places and forms.
Here is a video of the machines in china that make industrial quantities and we can imagine the process they have.
Basically its cleaning the lentils and make the bags.
I dont know if you remember when at elementary school the teacher made us plant in cotton some beans...
I remembered that the same month I started planting different kind of seeds in my garden, including lentils. At that moment, for me was enough thinking that that was the way normal lentils are made, but know I can imagine that its a large process, since the step of preparing the soil, to the harvest, to the factory, to the store, to my house.
I just found a very interesting manual that explains all the Lentils production process. It seems to be a really delicate plant, the grasshoppers, cold, and different types of animals and plagues are able to destroy all the harvest.
Lentil fits well into a direct seeding crop production system. Lentil seedlings can emerge through crop residue because of their strong seedling vigour and ability to emerge from greater soil depths.
For green lentil the basic quality parameters are seed diameter, seed thickness and uniformity,
color uniformity, and intact green seed coats without wrinkling or staining. Variety choice
also affects green lentil colour – varieties like large green and CDC Viceroy maintain green seed coat colour longer than other varieties during poor harvest conditions.
The principal dish prepared with the HANGIRI its sushi...
I know that its easier to learn how to cook if you see how an other people do it, so I found this video for preparing sushi rice with Hangiri...
This is the traditional way to preprare the rice in the local place where Hangiri was invented.