Lentil

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These soups are bright, bold, and never heavy.

Brown. Red. Black. French. With so many types of lentils to choose from, you need to know what each one is good for.

The most flavorful, hearty, and warming meal you've ever made with (almost) exclusively pantry staples.

In this dish, lentils get a double dose of tartness from lime-marinated red onion and a drizzle of tangy yogurt.

Yes! You can cook lentils and quinoa TOGETHER. And now your life will become exponentially easier.

That's a first.

This creamy dip requires almost no effort to blend together.

This soup is inspired by Ash Reshteh, a thick Iranian soup made with chickpeas, a boatload of herbs, and noodles, with one big exception: We omitted the noodles.

This restorative stew, from Divya’s Kitchen, features a rotating cast of hard and soft vegetables.

Poaching eggs right in the stew is so obviously genius, we are still trying to figure out why we didn’t think of this recipe sooner.

These fast-cooking legumes, high in protein and fiber, pair delightfully with our healthy sockeye salmon.

This steak, with lentils, squash, pesto, almonds, and marinated feta, will be unlike anything you've ever tried before. In a good way.

Try these tossed in slaw, stirred into soup, or fried with roasted veg to make fritters.

Any type of lentil will work in this weeknight soup. Or, substitute a couple cans of cannellini beans in their place.

Today, you requested a soup recipe with beans. We think you're gonna like this one-hour, one-pot meal.

One of many cool things about (super-nutritious) sprouted lentils: They don’t need to be cooked first.

Fragrant bits of spicy ground lamb and heaps of fresh herbs in this recipe to transform ordinary lentils into the pantry party kid.

Calling all savory breakfast people: This beans-and-greens egg bowl is for you.

A power lunch for grown-ups and kids alike.

Mujadarra is a popular Middle Eastern side dish comprised of lentils and rice. Here, it's perfumed with cumin and finished with yogurt. Serve along side roasted chicken or with a fried egg as a meal on its own.

Cooked in an aromatic sauce of leeks, garlic, and tomato paste, these lentils come alive

Lentils and rice pair together beautifully, and this hearty version gets subtlety from a bit of saffron and cinnamon.