Traditionally, this means oats, which all the recipes I try use, but pulses are also popular, with chef Graham Campbell, the Vegetarian Society, Edinburgh restaurant Henderson's and Veg Web all using lentils of various colours, and food writer Carl Legge plumping for yellow split peas.
This one also uses lentils and an array of cheap-as-chips grains that give character and texture and take on the punchy flavours much more readily.
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.
It's a naturally fortified meal - for proteins we use lentils, for micronutrients, we use leafy vegetables," she explains.
To test whether SNPs in ClCE6 and ClCE8 can differentiate virulent race 0 from less virulent race 1 isolates, 52 C. lentis isolates collected from western Canada were randomly selected and phenotyped using the lentil differential cultivar CDC Robin with partial resistance to race 1, but not to race 0 isolates.
Uses, lentils, rice onions and a few spices.
Rather than your basic brown lentils, which are serviceable but drab, this recipe uses red lentils.
I used French lentils, the nutty-tasting brown ones from the Champagne region, though Le Puy lentils or American brown lentils would be acceptable.
The objective of this study was to develop polymorphic markers in lentil using publicly available curated expressed sequence tag information (ESTs).
We describe here the development of a deep and diverse transcriptome resource for lentil using next generation sequencing technology.
