Industrial Production

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.

Lentils Production (harvest)

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.

Lentils production manual

Nutritional Facts

Lentils have lots of health benefits, more than you can even imagine after realized their tiny size.

They help to reduce the cholesterol, manage the blood sugar desorders, big amounts of fiber and they give us Vitamins and Proteins.

For more specific and useful information you can look in this page: Lentils nutritional facts
Spanish speakers: Propiedades nutricionales y beneficios a la salud

Let´s cook with Hangiri

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.

First try of cooking jadra

As a international student I have to confess that never in my life before I cooked something different than cereal, eggs and sandwich, so... 

This is the story of my first try for preparing my favorite dish that my mom sometimes cooks especially for me.

First you have to fry onions, until they are black

Take the onions out, fry the rice and wait until it starts sounding as popcorn. When you hear that sweet sound is the time to add the lentils (previous blended at the microwave), 3 cups of water per one of rice and the black onion.

 Put low fire and wait until there is no more water... Enjoy.

    








In my experience... It smells the same than my moms but the texture, view and flavour is different. Maybe is because I   didn´t follow exactly the recipe. I washed the rice (reason for not hearing the sound) and I didn´t count the water I add hahahaha.
It looks as rissoto, have a good taste but it had a lot of oil and it didn´t worked. But it was etable =D
I was cooking with some friends (Thanks God!)
One of them helped me for make my jadra look good as the picture below.

This is the first try of many until I get the flavourand the view that this recipe should have.         

 It was a pleasure trying, I had a lot of fun and I´m starting to discover that I love cooking but I need lots of practice =D

If I achieve this dish I promise to upload pictures.

Let´s do and know art with Lentils

Welcome to my art gallery... 

Eat lentils all over the world!!

Of course in all the world exists different ways to prepare lentils, each country has their own ingredients, seasoning and way of cooking. Let´s  take a look in some dishes and imagine what recipe would you like to try... 

México

http://www.mexicoenmicocina.com/2011/01/receta-de-sopa-de-lentejas-con-chorizo.html

My favorite recipe (supposedly from Libanon)

Sainsbury UK

https://www.homemadebyyou.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/chicken-with-puy-lentils

Slovakia

šošovicový prívarok

http://www.svarechou.sk/2014/03/sosovicovy-privarok.html

Australia

China