poll: are lentils and chickpeas “veggies”
- yes30%
- kinda?24.8%
- no39.6%
- idk / results5.6%
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they are not vegetables in the culinary sense imo, under the same "rules" that tomatoes are culinarily vegetables rather than fruits
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hmm what are they in the culinary sense then?
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starches, I'd meal-plan/serve them in the same role as rice or potatoes
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Not sure where you two are going with this. I pretty firmly believe that vegetable proteins take the place of [animal or vegetable] proteins in a meal. You could have beef stew or lentil stew. A shawarma or falafel. Etc.
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that works too!
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I mean, you can prepare mushrooms or eggplant (among others) to fit the role of meat. I wouldn't plate up a pile of lentils the way I would a steak, but falafel? I'd eat (or serve) that as the "meat" in a pita
similarly, cauliflower and chicken work well in a "potato" salad
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Agreed on lentil steak, sure. There's a dichotomy of dishes that treat vegetable protein as meat substitutes (lentil loaf, seitan wings), and dishes that celebrate vegetable protein as their own ingredients with their own strengths and weaknesses, like all other ingredients.
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I wouldn't make dal with steak 😉
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I'm... really tempted to take that as a challenge
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