During Lent, lentils were eaten in lieu of fish by those too poor to buy fish. With such a history as a recommendation, the lentil deserves to be ‘discovered’ and incorporated into American fusion cooking. Let’s take a look at the nutritional merits of this inexpensive legume, various black beluga lentil dishes and seasonings and then see how you can use the exotic, black beluga lentil to bring delicious, nutritious, variety to your holiday menus. While there are more than 50 varieties of lentils cultivated as food, including red, brown and green types, the black lentils are perhaps the most elegant and attractive. This smallest of lentils, the black beluga lentil derives its name from its appearance when cooked, shiny and black, resembling the prized Beluga caviar.

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