I go on cooking sprees. This afternoon, I pulled out the quinoa and the orange lentils.  I have this wonderful book which seems to be sitting around forever.  I pick it up, occasionally, get excited about the recipes and put it down without making anything.  There is no rationale behind this.  I really have wanted to use this book.  I bet, I have had it for twenty years.  It is called 365 Ways to Cook Vegetarian.  If you should own it, take a look and you will find a gold mine.  It is part of a series - 365 Ways To....

I think, I didn't follow through with the recipes because I only became a real veggie lover, recently.  The first time, I have had a lentil, knowingly (not in a restaurant or someone's home) was within the past two years.  The book has some interesting lentil recipes. The recipe, I used, is found on page 66 and is called Lentil Patties with Coconut Relish.  If you have read my blog for any length of time, you probably know, I change recipes around and sometimes, there is no way to tell that it came from the original recipe.  This time, I used most of the ingredients but I shifted gears completely, adding the relish to the patties and adding flax seed flour and ground nuts in place of the flour.

You can find a recipe that was most likely based on this recipe, here.  This one has a mango relish which I can imagine being delicious. 

Lentil Patties

• Time 40 minutes
• Serves 6

Ingredients

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• 1 1/4 cups uncooked dried orange lentils
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
• 2 carrots, shredded
• 1/4 cup flax seed flour
• 1/2 cup ground walnuts 
• 1 egg
•  1/4 cup shredded coconut
•  canola oil  (as needed to cook patties)

Method:

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• Rinse lentils thoroughly in colander under cold running water.
• Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
• Reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, 30 to 40 minutes until lentils are tender; drain.
• Combine half of lentils, onion, cumin, salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce in food processor; process until just combined.
• Add carrot, flour, egg and coconut
• Process using pulsing action until well blended; transfer to large bowl.
• Coat bottom of large skillet with oil.
• Heat over medium-high heat until very hot.
• Using large cookie scoop place scoops of lentil mixture in skillet.
• Cook patties over medium heat 4 - 5 minutes on each side until browned on both sides, adding additional oil if needed.

 I did not get any good photos but to get an idea what these looked like, here is one.  They do look like hamburgers.  I browned them a little too long or on too high a heat so be careful, if making these.