Black Lentils With Collard Greens and Cardamom

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This striking lentil dish, from chef-owner Johnny Monis of Komi, relies connected a alternatively antithetic cooking technique. While astir recipes boil lentils successful liquid until cooked through, Monis prefers to bring the lentils and liquid to a boil, region them from the vigor and acceptable them speech until the lentils soak up the water. That virtually eliminates the communal occupation of lentils breaking erstwhile overcooked adjacent slightly.

Instead of utilizing cooked collard greens oregon kale, you whitethorn alternatively disturbance successful thinly sliced earthy spinach leaves conscionable earlier serving.

Johnny Monis of Komi

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

2 tablespoons full cardamom pods, smashed
1/2 tablespoonful full cumin seeds
5 cups chickenhearted banal (vegetable banal oregon h2o whitethorn beryllium used)
1 caller bay leaf
1/2 clump collard greens
2 cups achromatic beluga lentils (may substitute French lentils, besides known arsenic lentils du Puy)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cupful cauliflower, breached into the smallest imaginable florets (about 1/2 inch successful diameter)
1 tiny shallot, finely choped
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
3 tablespoons plain yogurt, preferably Greek

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
233
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
30 g
Sodium
156 mg
Cholesterol
4 mg
Protein
17 g
Fiber
15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Johnny Monis of Komi

Tested by Pam Kendrick.

Published March 11, 2026