lentils, mung beans & aduki beans

[mandimoo]

i know i can google hundreds, nay, thousands of recipes containing the above, however, i would like to hear your tried and tested recipies that would suit me.... my accupuncturist has told me to cut down on the spicy hot foods due to a damp warm humour, and to balance this, one of the food groups im lacking is pulses. so.... i would like to know of recipies with good strong flavours, but avoiding too much chilli spice.

[poodicat]

damp warm humour?

[mandimoo]

apparantly, but its not my sense of humour! (although that can be quiet dark).... i quote ..."theory held that the human body was filled with four basic substances, called four humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors. "

[poodicat]

Sounds american ask pasta

[sandyRoe]

Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. I think they're not much considered these days.

[mandimoo]

oh dear, you are quite right, my accupuncurist did not call it 'the humours', but i cant remember what she called it but humours seemed like it fitted. my question is still a serious one though, i would like not to be dismissed for this error ;o)

[sandyRoe]

I'd advise a simple lentil soup but leave out the salt. There's one humour, 'Blood', that it plays havoc with.

[pastafreak]

The 'humours' were basic to very early medicine-ie-the 1400's...and were as sandy said.

As for a recipe....try 'kitcheree'.....it is what kedgeree is based on, and is real Indian 'comfort food'.

http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/kitcheree-0

BUT....I would cook the mung dhal for about 20 minutes before adding the rice,as it takes somewhat longer to cook.

[Mr Veritas]

Damp warm humour,is this a new comedy show in the Amazon rain forest?
Sorry,couldn't resist,blame it on my 2nd childhood!LOL

[mollykins]

the four humours date back to Hippocrates.

[tamborine]

maybe it was 'hemos' as in hematology (blood). Lentils are full of iron. Soak mung beans in cold water for 24h = crunchy bean sprouts.

Boil lentils till tender with little salt. Oil in frypan, 1 clove garlic, 1 tsp yellow haldi & bean sprouts quick fry (1min) mix boiled lentils to frypan, serve with boiled rice.

[pastafreak]

mollykins is correct...I did a course on the History of Medicine-and forgot how far back the term dated......
http://www.kheper.net...ogy/four_humours.html

it just sounds odd to our 21stC ears

[piggynose]

i would try and avoid mung beans. after several attempts over many years of trying to cook em. i always get too many teeth breaking stones amongst them, and it doesnt matter which ones you buy

[JB]

I've just grown bean sprouts from mung beans this week - having them in a stir fry tonight!

[pastafreak]

Not true piggynose I have used TRS brand Mong Dhal Chilka for the above recipe for a number of years...and never any stones...;-))
You can get it in ethnic /Asian grocery stores