Homemade Crispy Red Lentil Patties Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

This week we did these lovely and quite easy lentil patties. A lot of people don't like lentils, and I think it's for the same reason that a lot of people don't like quinoa, and that's because they need to be washed. Both lentils and quinoa have chemicals on them called saponins that give them a bitter and slightly soapy flavour. When we wash our lentils in this video, you can easily see how cloudy the water is, and also the slight sudsing you see. You need to keep rinsing them until the water is clear and there's almost no sudsing up any more. We usually find it takes three good rinses to get them clean.

We thought that we could blend these with our stick blender, but we ended up having to put everything into the food processor. Lentils tend to absolutely soak up flavour because they are fairly bland on their own, so you do want to make sure that you give them enough seasoning. Even with the entire dried chipotle pepper in there, these were not hot at all. You can change the flavour profile however you prefer. We sould have preferred to have shallots instead of onion, but honestly, however you want to do them will work. You could give these an Indian curry flavour, or even a pumpkin spice flavour if you want.

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