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.
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.
