Packaged lentils will keep for approximately 12 months. Make sure that they come from a store with a high turnover to ensure that they haven't been sitting on the store shelves for a long time.
Not a good idea to buy any "brand" lentils. Go to your best local Indian or Arabic food store and get natural organic lentils.
Yes. I took a class on India and my teacher (who had been to India for three months) brought back many dishes involving lentils. They are quite good.
Like flour, sugar,oil and many other things in cooking, lentils are actually a huge variety of legumes. I fortunately live in an area where we have access to cooking materials from all parts of the world. -My point is - you can't just say"lentils" -there are at least 12 kinds and not all the same. Possibly the most common is the 'green lentil' these are the most tasty in my opinion. There are approximately 192 grams of green lentils in a cup. .
One pound of lentils is approximately 0.0167 of a bushel.
There are MANY kinds of lentils. - Common green lentils are about 12 gm per tablespoon.
Lentil is a countable noun (you can count the individual lentils) so the correct form is:How many lentils do you need to make this meal?
That is approximately 1.42 cups of green lentils
140 grams = 5 ounces of lentils (or more precisely 4.93835467 ounces)
60 lbs
Green lentils (the most common kind in north America) almost double their weight when cooked. So 450 gm of cooked Green lentils would have been about 230 grams of dry lentils.
There is no such thing as lentils. However, there are lentils. Lentils are a bean and they are commonly used in soup dishes.
There is approximately 0.424 pounds of lentils in one cup. This means that there would be about 10.588 pounds of lentils in 25 cups.