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This looks so good
If your market’s got lentil du puy, they got crème fresh. Lol but so true. Brigitte is so smart and witty all the time.
I love lentils…
its summer rn but bet your butt I'm makin this simple dish come fall
It's a staple of middle eastern cooking as far as I know.
I’m here from the U.S. and I don’t think many Americans are interested in lentils.
Great vegetarian main dish!
The best lentil soup I ever had was several years back at all you can eat Soup Plantation or Sweet Tomatoes Buffet(different name same owners)- both in California and Las Vegas Nevada before they closed permanently due to COVID. It was called continental lentil(tomato based) and it was chock full of lentils and out of this world delicious! They only had it about 3 years until closure. I miss it greatly! Ironically the worst one I had about 30 years ago was from the same buffet. It was called herbal lentil and barely lasted a few months. It burned the throat, watery, and had low level lentils! Awful! They got rid of that quickly!
The other great lentil soup I had was about 2 decades ago or so at a middle eastern restaurant in Point Loma San Diego California which offered an all you can eat meal during certain hours! It was supreme! I only went there unfortunately one time.
What the… ? Since when is salt added to legumes before cooking? That extends their cooking time! No wonder they boil them for 30 mins! Soaked a little they can be done in half the time!
For "pro" cook, I'm surprised to see you make an horizontal cut on onion… Unnecessary step and can be dangerous.
Plenty of good tutorial like the one from Chef Jean-Pierre
In Australia we grow Puy lentils. But we can't call them Puy, but instead they are solld as French-style green lentils. I haven't cooked a brown lentil since discovering these beautiful green lentils.
I love Lentils. This recipe looks delicious! Thanks ❤❤😋
I can't afford 80% of what I see on here but I love learning so that's my food for thought but due to being hit twice on my bicycle Im stuck on disability one hundred dollars isn't much to live on it's driving me nutty but I at least get to live through others on YouTube
I LOVE LENTAILS…💖
Diantre
une bonne recette de petit salé aux lentilles aurait été meilleure 👀
A lil lemon zest too 🤩
Nice!
ATK, more Ashley, please. 😉
Just top it with a little bit of Crème Fraîche at the end! Oh yeah!
Love 🇫🇷 lentils
Horizontal half onion cuts are ridiculously unnecessary and unsafe
Puy lentils are a little boring, Good brown lentils are better for me.
Little Basmati rice to accompany and a spoon of clarified butter also called Ghee will raise it to another level.
From the written recipe: "You can substitute other French green lentils for the lentilles du Puy, but do not substitute other types of green lentils or black, brown, or red lentils—the cooking times of the other lentil varieties can vary greatly."
Missing portion of the outro:
Bridget: Buttery, almost.
Ashley: Yes.
B: The mirepoix…
A: Mm-hmm.
B: …the lentils themselves, and then that Dijon mustard.
A: The spinach in there not only adds some beautiful green color, but it just adds some freshness and just a little bit of extra kind of texture in there as well.
B: It's so elegant and yet really, really simple. Thank you.
A: You're welcome.
B: You're the best.
B: So why don't you try your hands at making lentils du Puy at home? It starts with sautéing mirepoix. Then simmer with lentils and broth. Fold in fresh spinach and a little mustard and finish with a dollop of crème fraîche. So from "Cook's Country," a very French recipe for lentils du Puy with spinach and crème fraîche. You can get this recipe and all the recipes from this season along with product reviews and select episodes. And those are all on our website. That's Cook's Country dot com slash TV.
B: ♪♪ Mmm! You know what'd be good with this?
A: Mm-hmm?
B: Caviar.
A: Now you're talking.
B: Oui, oui.
A: Mm-hmm.
(Thanks, PBS)
I'm sorry, but they don't sell them at my local supermarket.
This is definitely a grown-up dish. I doubt many 3-10 year olds would enjoy eating this.
Very nice preparation 💙💙💙
This is palakura pappu but with mustard and cream haha
You guys should try more lentil dishes from the Indian subcontinent, there are sooo many varieties and variations!
Only after you have been to South Asia and tasted the hundreds of lentil dishes you can say that you have tasted enough to conclude which is the best lentil dish.
These are a must try. I would rather have a small amount of something great than a whole lot of ho-hum. And willing to spend the money. Thank you for the recipe and video.
Super easy to make vegan too!
Great lentils… a bit expensive, even in Europe.
3:01 they should be stones du puy, which should be very creamy and mineraly too. No problems there, I think
I haven’t found du puy lentils—not with AOC certification. Stores sell “French lentils,” which have the same speckles as du puy. Are they a suitable substitute?
I'd leave out the mustard.
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Hooray! Thank you for this recipe! I am looking to add more lentils to my diet 😊