How to cook lentils and split peas from Modern Pressure Cooking: The Comprehensive Guide to Stovetop and Electric Cookers, with Over 150 Recipes (page 233) by Catherine Phipps

  • lentils of your choice

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  • Ganga108 on January 19, 2025

    PUY LENTILS: the time is too short in my Instant Pot. I increased to 5 mins (unsoaked) with FNR.

  • Ganga108 on September 01, 2024

    SPLIT RED LENTILS: The 2 mins cooking time with full NR is far too much time (as expected) - the lentils were mush. Next time I will try bringing to pressure, 0 mins cooking time and full release. This may even be too much and might have to do 10 mins NR. (Will update the comment when I try again.)

  • Ganga108 on September 01, 2024

    For CHANNA DAL I have found the timings too short for my Instant Pot and the lentils that I use. For example, channa dal takes around 6 mins HP with full NR. (I used 4 mins HP with full NR and they were not quite soft enough in the middle.) So recommend experimenting to get the timings right for your PC. What I did like about her method is that it brought out the natural sweetness in the channa dal, something that is overlooked when it is loaded up with lots of spicy flavours. *** I expect that soaking the channa dal beforehand (which she says is not needed) would mean it would cook in the 2-3 mins specified. *** Some of the other timings seem crazy short or crazy long to me, and will trial them before cooking large quantities.

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