How to store lentils for a long time

Everyone should eat vegetables like lentils often. There are many types of lentils. The most common ones are green lentils and purple lentils. Due to its composition, its vitamin C and other trace elements can play a good supplement role to the human body. However, lentils are a fresh vegetable and can easily spoil if not stored properly. So how should lentils be preserved for a long time?

1. How to choose lentils

As we all know, the lentils on the market are tender lentil pods that are eaten as vegetables. Due to different pod colors, they can be divided into white lentils, green lentils, and purple lentils. Generally speaking, white lentils are preferred, as their pods are thick, tender, fragrant and delicious. For this kind of lentils eaten as vegetables, you should choose young pods with shiny skin, thick flesh and invisible seeds; if the pods have thin skin, visible seeds and dark luster, they are already mature and can only be eaten by peeling the seeds.

For vegetable beans, if the skin of the pod becomes thinner and the seeds become obvious and dull, we should not buy them. There is another type of beans that are mainly used as staple food or for medicinal purposes. They are mainly edible dried beans, which also come in white, black, brown or patterned varieties. Different beans have different nutritional values ​​and functions, so when choosing, we must also consider our physical condition and nutritional needs.

2. Storage of Lentils

For fresh lentils, we can blanch them with boiling water first, and then wait for the beans to cool down, put them in a plastic bag, make sure to seal it, and then put them in the refrigerator, so that we can take them out when we want to eat them. Boil a large pot of water, add salt, put the washed lentils in to blanch, stir quickly with a large spatula, take out and put on a hollow plate to dry, turn it over frequently in the middle, and it will be good if it is exposed to the sun for a week, then put it in a bag and seal it for storage.

Here are some methods of preserving and purchasing lentils. For delicious food, the purchase and preservation of ingredients are very important. If the purchased ingredients are not good, or there are problems during storage, it will have a great impact on the preparation of the ingredients and the taste of the food.