Merhaba... Hello my dear friends, I started today's writing with a Turkish greeting, which means "hello". How is everyone doing? I am doing pretty good, lately I have a little more time than usual in my hands so I am creating more new dishes.
Today actually I was thinking without going to the grocery store if I can make something good, delicious and healthy at the same time.You guys should see my pantry, I am always telling my friends, if anything happens, like aliens attack... :))), we, I and my partner, would definitely survive few more months than the other people. I also tell them ( my friends), if you don't have anything to eat just come to our home, we sure have more than enough food always for everyone. So clearing that part, my pantry is always packed with dry beans,white rice, brown rice, all kinds of grains, pastas, sauces, spices and herbs, canned goods, although I am not a big fan of canned goods, I usually stock some tuna fish, salmon, anchovies.
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| "Lentil Torpedoes" |
Anyways, I opened my pantry and I saw packs of lentils, I mean all kinds of lentils, D and I, we love lentils, so we have all different kinds of lentils, the green ones, yellow ones, red ones, little ones, big ones... I just remembered, back home, in Turkey we used to make lentil balls " mercimek koftesi", traditionally it is made with red lentils, bulgur ( cracked wheat), onions, tomato paste and spices. I didn't have enough of red lentils, so I mixed the red lentils with yellow ones, and I boiled them in a large pot, and let them simmer about 30 to 45 minutes and turned it off, they were totally soft and a little watery, I add the bulgur and simmer another 10 minutes, than saute the onions in another small pan with couple of tablespoons of olive oil and add them to that mixture, cumin, tomato paste, cayenne pepper, some paprika and salt, pepper mix them all together, and form them into those torpedo shape lentil balls, and serve them with green onions and chopped parsley. They were good... :)
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