red lentil
Cultural layer
Azalea Guerra-Garcia and others, An evolutionary look into the history of lentil reveals unexpected diversity (Evolutionary Applications, 2022)
Kathy Fitzpatrick, Lentils first breakthrough in CDC history of re-shaping Prairie agriculture (University of Saskatchewan, 12 January 2021)
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking (Madhur Jaffrey, Barron's)
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery (Madhur Jaffrey, 1982)
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Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
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Connections
14 bonds · 13 sourcedMasoor dal tadka.
Read in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 119, the recipe is called Red Split Lentils with Cumin Seeds, masoor dal; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
Masoor dal.
Read in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 119, the turmeric in with the lentils at the start, and page 120; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
Masoor dal, which the book says is best served with a rice dish.
Grain and pulse complementarity again, with the quickest-cooking of the dals. Rice short on lysine, masoor short on methionine, the plate complete where neither half is.
Maize in human nutrition: improvement of maize diets (Food and Agriculture Organization, accessed 2026-09-13) · Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery (Madhur Jaffrey, 1982) · Rice in Human Nutrition (Bienvenido O. Juliano, FAO, 1993)
Relocated in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 119, and pages 50 and 74, where the red split lentils are the suggested side to rice; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
The same complementarity, with the red lentil of misir wot specifically. Teff short on lysine, the pulse short on methionine, injera carrying both.
Maize in human nutrition: improvement of maize diets (Food and Agriculture Organization, accessed 2026-09-13) · Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa (Yohanis Gebreyesus, 2019) · Lost Crops of Africa, Volume I: Grains (National Research Council, 1996)
Misir wot.
Tarka dal with masoor.
Dal tadka.
Read in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 120, Red Split Lentils with Cabbage, the garlic browned in the cumin oil; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
Masoor dal: ginger slices simmered with the lentils and lifted out before serving.
Relocated in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 119, where the ginger goes in the pot and the cumin goes in the ghee; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
Popped into the dal.
Chicken mulligatawny: the red split lentil base finished with lemon juice.
Relocated in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 172, where the book says you might want more than the tablespoon given; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.
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Studio Culinar-E, "red lentil", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/red-lentil
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.