All about lentils: how to cook lentils, the difference between varieties/colors of lentils, when to salt lentils when cooking on the stovetop. Learn which variety of lentils is best for salads and which variety is best for dal, how much water to use when cooking lentils, and if cooked lentils can be frozen. Ingredients below or at https://www.cookingcompaniontv.com/le...

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Difference between lentil types
2:29 How lentils cook
3:16 Lentil cooking liquid
3:40 Trip to Kalustyan's
4:08 How to cook brown/green/black lentils
4:50 Do lentils need to soak?
5:22 How much water to use for cooking lentils
5:58 Green lentil cooking demo & when to salt
6:43 Cooking red/yellow/orange split lentils
7:18 Adding flavor & freezing lentils

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I'm Jenna Edwards, a food enthusiast and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. Most importantly, I love food and the cultures and traditions around it. I help people eat more vegetables through my cooking companion videos. My goal is to make you feel more comfortable cooking, so I show you not only how a recipe works and looks, but I give techniques and suggestions for making it easy on beginner cooks.

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