Re: Ready to try beans...red or brown lentils? *Marilyn*

[Guest guest]

Marilyn,

Do you use brown or red lentils when you make your chili? I'm excited to try

your recipe:)

Caroline

SCD since 1/7/10

UC since 1999

Crohn's since 2008

Remicade since 2008

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> > I make a lentil-chili which I conserder to be quite good.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks! I'll probably use the brown ones once I do a test run with them plain to

make sure they're tolerated.

Oh, how I've missed beans! It's so excited to start adding things back in to my

plain-ish diet...

> >Do you use brown or red lentils when you make

> >your chili? I'm excited to try your recipe:)

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> I've used both, actually. Split reds are the

> easiest to digest, but tend to not give you the

> chunky effect that the brown lentils (or beans in regular chili) do.

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> My husband dislikes lima beans, navy pea beans,

> and kidney beans. The latter is almost heresy

> around here, since one of the favorite non-SCD

> dishes is red beans and rice (illegal) with

> sausage. I've considered doing a mix of split

> reds and browns with sausage, but haven't gotten around to trying it.

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> — Marilyn

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