Ingredients: 1 cup black lentils, ¼ cup kidney beans, One medium sized onion, diced, 3-4 cloves garlic, crushed, One inch fresh ginger root, grated, One tomato, diced, 4-6 table spoons olive oil, 1 table spoon cumin seeds, 1 ½ tea spoon turmeric powder, Salt and black pepper to taste, 7 ½ cups water, Coriander/Cilantro leaves for garnishing, Pressure Cooker, for cooking.
Method: In the pressure cooker, heat olive oil and add cumin seeds. When they sputter, add garlic and keep stirring until it turns golden brown. Then add onion and just when it turns golden brown add turmeric powder and stir for a couple of seconds. Now add diced tomato. When the tomatoes are tender, add water, lentils, kidney beans, ginger, salt and pepper. Cover with the whistle. With the first whistle, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for 45 minutes. Open the cooker only when the steam has completely settled.
Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with any kind of bread, rice or simply enjoy it as a soup.[HQ]
Manjit Handa, PhD is the Editor of the magazine, Healing Matrix.
Harnessing Mindfulness Good Morning Parmjit I apologize for taking so long in contacting you. I wanted to let you know that the evaluations sheets we handed out after you did the session for our Divisional Day (way back in October) were all excellent. Every single staff person who attended your session was very pleased with it. They all found it very relaxing and said that they would enjoy a further session and recommend you to other departments who were having a department day similar to the one you presented your session at.
Also, I should mention that you may in the very near future hear from one of my co-workers asking you to do a session for our individual team. She is working on the logistics with our manager to see what we can do about having you come to one of our meetings.
Once again, I want to thank you for the wonderful session you did for us and wish you the best in 2009.
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