Vegetarian Murphy Casserole Amongst Light-Green Lentils (Mercimekli Patates Oturtma)

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Back inward the 80s, when I was inward the simple school, to back upward farmers who couldn't sell their create Turkish regime had bought hard-to-melt-down sum of lentils. The government's solution for agricultural crisis created some other problem: warehouses stocked alongside lentils.

Government's solution to this novel lentil crisis was Ayşe Baysal, professor of nutrition as well as dietetics, aka "auntie Ayşe" or "auntie lentil." Auntie lentil appeared every unmarried day, seriously, for months on TV, on the alone channel of the time--the state's channel TRT1, as well as gave a lentil recipe. Behind this obsessive non-stop lentil recipe creation was, of course, the conclusion of regime as well as auntie Ayşe to trim down the national surplus of lentils.

Turkish populace learned from "auntie lentil" that 100 gr. lentils is equal to ? gr. dry soil meat; how to brand phyllo dough pastries (börek) alongside lentils; or how to brand dolmas alongside lentils. Some of these recipes inspired Turkish people to laid upward to a greater extent than alongside lentils, as well as some scarred us; they became a nation's nightmare or a purpose of its black collective unconscious similar "baklava alongside lentils"!! The sentiment annoys me to this day. (I wonder if anyone tried)

I remembered auntie lentil a pair of days agone when I wanted to brand a traditional Turkish recipe, potato casserole, which requires dry soil meat. I am non actually fond of dry soil inwardness as well as I was thinking virtually how or alongside what to supervene upon it when I clearly remembered auntie lentil maxim over as well as over in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than that lentils are perfect substitute for dry soil meat. And hither nosotros go...


























1 loving cup greenish lentils
5-6 potatoes, cutting inward 1/2 inch rounds (This fourth dimension I used crimson potatoes, exactly whatsoever white patato is fine)
ii medium onions, finely chopped
ii cloves of garlic, minced
ii big crimson Italian sweetness peppers or ii greenish chilies, finely chopped
ii tomatoes, diced
ii tbsp love apple tree paste
1 loving cup chopped parsley
iii - 4 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp cumin
1 bay leaf
crushed crimson pepper flakes
dry soil pepper as well as salt

-Boil greenish lentils alongside 1 tsp cumin, 1 bay leaf, as well as v cups of H2O until cooked. Rinse.
-Boil white patato rounds inward salty H2O for to a greater extent than or less 10 minutes. Don't allow them acquire mushy; they should endure cooked exactly firm.
-Heat fossil oil inward a pan. Add onions as well as garlic. Cook for 5-6 minutes until onion is softened.
-Add peppers as well as laid upward for iii minutes.
-Add love apple tree glue as well as laid upward for ii to a greater extent than minutes.
-Stir inward love apple tree as well as lentils. Add tabular array salt as well as pepper (and optional crushed crimson pepper flakes).
-Cover as well as simmer for 10-15 minutes. (Add a piffling flake of H2O if it dries out)
-Grease an oven dish as well as house white patato rounds. Cover white patato rounds alongside lentils. Pour 1/4 loving cup of water.
-Bake inward a preheated oven at 350F for 20-25 minutes.
-Sprinkle parsley on run past times earlier you lot serve.

The recipe turned out actually good. We tried it alongside yogurt the offset day; nosotros loved it. And side past times side twenty-four hours nosotros heated it upward inward the oven alongside cheese on top. That was delicious, too.

This lentil recipe alongside my favorite herb parsley is for "auntie lentil" every bit good every bit for Simona of Weekend Herb Blogging.
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