When I was younger I never used to eat legumes. It was not because my mom never used to makes legumes for meals, it was because I could not stand eating them. The only legumes I ever ate was lentils. Legumes in the Mediterranean diet is very important and one has to eat of this food group at least twice a week. It was just recently that I started eating legumes with a passion because I decided that I wanted to shed 2-3 kg. I was going to do this by eating more legumes and less meat and fast food. I did loose the weight, but I put it back on again. I am a meat person, what can I say ? Don't get me wrong...I still eat legume three times a week, and I love it! Plus is is great for one's GI tract. What follows is the recipe for how I make legumes which is adapted from the way my mom makes them. Ingredients
1.5 cups of lentils (brown coloured)
0.5 cup of rice
2 onions (chopped)
1 cube of stock (beef or chicken)
olive oil (to fry the onions)
Method
Fry onions until golden brown and set aside
Boil water in a saucepan and add lentils. Boil lentils for 15 minutes.
Strain the water and pour fresh boiling water in the saucepan with the lentils.
Add the rice, the cube of stock and and the fried onions and boil for another 15-20 minutes depending on whether you like the lentils soft or crunchy.
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