4 interesting lentil recipes to try out this weekend

* Beetroot and lentil salad

Lentils seemed excessively healthy to me during my college years, I had only ever tasted them over-cooked and stodgy, they were a food eaten for the sake of virtue rather than for taste.

A visit to India taught me that they could in fact be something quite different. I travelled around for six weeks and was served a variation on a lentil dish at almost every meal.