Other dishes include idli, steamed cakes of lentils and rice that are served in various kinds of spiced broths, and uttappam, a thick pancake made of idli batter and served with onions and peppers.
Other dishes include iddly, steamed cakes of lentils and rice that are served in spiced broths, and uttappam, a thick pancake made of iddly batter and served with onions and peppers.
Delicate little cakes of lentils and ricotta, served with a dill-flecked yogurt sauce, may be too dear at $12 (and maybe too dry), but there is a healthy count on the sweet roasted beets in a hearty $11 salad that pairs them with peppery watercress and salt-rich Gorgonzola.
South Indian snacks, like idli, steamed cakes of rice and lentil flour ($3.45), and medu vadai ($3.45), crisp rice and lentil doughnuts, are excellent, either dipped into mild coconut chutney or a spicy lentil broth.
Spiced rice cake (podi idli) was a delight of subtlety, with flavorings of lentil powder, white sesame seed and red chili powder.
Less successful were the heavy mozzarella-prosciutto fritters, the crab cake over a bed of lentils and the grilled octopus salad.
Some kind of lentil, I offer.
There are, explains Yassin, 32 types of lentil.
Or you can experiment with any other kind of lentil.
Any type of lentil will work in this recipe.
