Lentil bake - quite tasty but sucks every drop of moisture from your mouth....

[Jessajam]

leading to two questions really:

1 - what did I do wrong?

2 - what can I serve it with to stop ds shrivelling inro a prune before my eyes while he eats it?

rofl sorry no help but your post made me laugh

where are all the lentil bakers??

what was the recipe? Do you want a nice one?

I would like to try and make a lentil bake, can I have the nice recipe too please??

Franny!!!! A gen- u- wine lentil guru!
um...it was basically lentils, onion and/or red pepper and cheese...is that a 'bad one'? [anxious grin]

I don't know, I have never made that

what was it cooked in, I mean was there stock and so on? Was it with mash or pastry (personally I would never do pastry because it is almost always too heavy and dry for me)

I have lots of shepherds pie type recipes with lentils, definitely not dry, would that be the sort of thing?

'cook 6oz lentils in 12 floz water for about 15 mins until pureed. Mix in 4oz grated chhes and 1 onion/red pepper chopped, herbs, salt, pepepr. Beat in one egg. Shove in bread tin, in oven for 45-50 mins until top is golden brown '

That was it. So simple...how did I balls it up?!

this sounds like what you did, I'll look for other recipes

this sounds nice

Yep...I did the riverford one...

WTF is Shoyu? And is it the sort of thing I will buy at great expense, only to ever use a "dash" of, once?

Ohhhh...like a lentil roast?

You would need a gravy or tomato sauce with that I would think?

Am putting ds to bed, will return with lovely lentil recipes

Ok, lentil shepherds pie, this is Rose Elliot and is good in my book:

8 oz continental lentils
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1 stick celery
1 lge carrot
4 oz mushrooms
1 tsp herbs
1 tbsp tom puree

Soak lentils overnight then drain and rinse. Cover with cold water in a saucepan and simmer gently until tender. Drain. Fry all veg until tender then add lentils, herbs, tom puree, salt and pepper, put in oven topped with mash. Bake for 40 mins at 200 deg / GM 6

For lentil loaf I would just mix with lots of tasty veg such as mushrooms, peppers etc, just as you said, and then either add an egg or some cooked brown rice and stodge it altogether, poss with a stock cube dissolved in a few tbsp of water if it seemed dry. I would always use gravy or tomato sauce though - it is a dry type of thing.

Hope this is some use and sorry I misunderstood to begin with - just kept thinking of lentil pie instead of a bake / loaf thing

Jessajam shoyu is similar to soy sauce and you can substitute one for the other

Thanks Franny. I have added these pearls of lentil-wisdom to my (small) recipe collection!