Urid? what would you use it for

dolly_day_dream

I am having a long overdue clean out of my larder and may not have to go shopping for several months:o Whilst cleaning out the pulses I found a packet of "Urid - whole" still in date which I bought in an ethnic grocers thinking it was puy lentils:rolleyes: - it was dark, I was in a hurry, and yes I do need to wear glasses more often.

I have never heard of this before and I'm not quite sure what to use it for. I am all for trying new recipes and I am hoping someone can enlighten me.

BTW the out of date chick peas are being made into juggling balls and the out of date butter beans are for bean bags. If I don't find out what Urid is they might also be turned into juggling balls.:o

justin138

OOD chick peas??? I've been using chick peas for years and years - the same packet! Never gave it a thought that dried peas could go "out of date".

Jo

bigmuffins

Out of date dried pulses and beans? It never bothers me or my mum!
As long as they have been stored in dry conditions they are fine! Just soak and cook as normal!
Only if they have got damp would I chuck them! As then can get mould growing!
As for the urid/urad - google and get loads of recipes!
Is used for veggie curries, flour is used for poppadoms, mixed with rice and ground into wet batter is used for dosas and idlis. Add to rice and cook for different flavour
Have fun looking and trying
cheers

snowball2

Never used them personally but some info on them here & here

HTH

Snow

Gingham_Ribbon

Out of date pulses can be very tough and fail to soften up on cooking.

Quasar

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Out of date pulses can be very tough and fail to soften up on cooking.

That is correct. But it's worth trying to sprout them, and use the sprouts in a healthy salad....;)

dolly_day_dream

Thanks for all your help - I didn't want to cook the out of date pulses in case they took ages to cook - it has happened to me in the past and as I have lots of them - Sainsbury's were having a clear out- I would rather not risk it. I have tried but I just can't get used to eating bean sprouts.

dolly_day_dream

I have looked at the recipe on the TRS site which are exactly the urid I got and am going to have a go at making Dal Makhani

Ted_Hutchinson

Mamta's Kitchen Urid recipes

Enter URID in the search box and you get quite a useful list.

Mamta also has a forum and will if you get stuck on any of the recipes or want her advice, reply to your questions.

If you soak your out of date pulses overnight they don't seem to me to take any longer than normal. Mind you I always use a pressure cooker for pulses so never have to wait long anyway.