What can I make with these things?

[pinkpetal2]

So these bags were reduced down to 20p each so I've brought them, but what can I do with them? Never eaten these things in my life

There's a good post down the page for dal recipes.

Here it is

Top daal recipes http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/foodandd_recipes/4025410-Top-daal-recipes

Quinoa you can treat as couscous. roughly 30g per person to 35g boiling water (add stock cube etc if required) leave to soak in bowl with lid. Eat when quinoa absorbs all the water and becomes soft. Eat anywhere you would rice or cous cous or with fish and meat.

I use quinoa to make a huge tabbouleh style salad and have it as part of my lunch every day. So use about a cupful to 2 cups water and boil for 12 ish minutes.

Drain and cool.

Add lots of chopped tomatoes, chopped fresh herbs (tonnes of parsley if you can get it, and mint is good), 1/2 lemon juice, olive oil, allspice / sumac, salt and pepper. Can freestyle with anything you want really.

Split peas - not used them myself but if they're like lentils I use them in anything that has mince in to bulk out and also to make a really filling veg soup.

I tried soaking quinoa like cous cous and it was still absolutely rock hard!!!

Pea soup with the split peas.

The yellow peas are perfect for daal! Can take a while to cook though, but worth it. Cook them up with stock and add the rest of the flavours when they’re cooked.

Quinoa is lovely and nutty but needs rinsing before cooking. Cook in stock, it’s much more like rice than cous cous (though it’s actually a seed) make into a nice big grain salad, or its great in a veggie burger (mix in cheese, spring onion, egg and herbs/spices, make into patties and fry)

If you can get past the yellow - the split peas will make an excellent pea and ham soup - or just pea soup if you've no meat.

Boil green lentils in salted water for twenty minutes, drain them and add to anything you'd usually add mince to - shepherd's pie is a great one.

Not the foggiest for quinoa though, sorry!

You can soak yellow split peas overnight, it seriously reduces cooking time.

Deft lentils and peas into a curry or chilli

Pease pudding!

Greek fava dip made with split peas is delicious (like hummous but nicer).

I would use the green lentils in a warm salad with poached salmon or grilled salmon, possibly with a honey glaze. You can't go wrong with plain old lentil soup, with or without bacon.

Quinoa I just use as a substitute for rice or couscous.

Ooh lots of good ideas thank you will have a google too I'm a sucker for a random bargain

The yellow and green split peas make lovely thick soup .
Another non-culinary use I give them is to put in a cloth bag and heat in the microwave. I apply to sore spots in my case shoulder and back of neck or lower back.
In fact now I've remembered I'm going to heat and apply to my sore lower back, haven't used during the hot months but last winter used the bag lots and it's comforting.