Sentence examples for lentil from inspiring English sources

In the winter months the mulligatawny soup – a spicy variation on lentil soup cooked in south Indian style – is a perfect compliment to onion bhaji or gobi pakora (cauliflower fried in chick-pea flour).

One evening when I showed up for my lesson, he was cooking huge vats of lentil soup for the evening meal.

There would be really fresh salads and brochettes (kebabs) for lunch, and lavish spreads in the evening, featuring lentil and bean dishes, lamb and apricot tagine, and relishes including a particularly delicious sultana chutney.

If anything, her blog is a colourful rebuke to the commenters who sneer that people on benefits should just make a cheap lentil stew to last them all week: "I do use lentils in my cooking – I make polenta bolognaise, I make burgers out of them – but I do get infuriated by people who say, 'Oh, just eat lentils.' Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid.

The lentil stew is very pleasant served on its own or with any roasted game birds, but it is also sublime with hake.

It's lunchtime in Cranhill Community Centre in the north-east of Glasgow, and he stops beside a serving hatch to ask for tea and toasties from a handsome blonde woman who delivers one-liners while keeping an eye on the homemade lentil soup.

Friends would sneer at his name on the housework rota; frown at the missing bannisters and lentil stews.

Most had scattered some cotton or lentil seed after the rain.

Naive, subversive, priggish, lentil-eating, sandal-wearing, feminist, humourless … the right's charge list is a long one.

There's a wealth of innocence in that conclusion which makes us lentil-eaters feel quite worldly.

Try Fraser Nelson, no lentil-eater he, here in the Spectator where he points out that the Treasury is now poised to halve the deficit in five years, compared with Alistair Darling's promise of four.