Blond lentil ✦

Lentille blonde de Saint-Flour

What it is

Grown on the basalt plateau of the Planeze de Saint-Flour since the Middle Ages, the blond lentil had all but vanished by the 1960s and came back with a Label Rouge in 2009 and an IGP behind it. Production runs to some eighty tonnes a year against six thousand for the green lentil of Le Puy - and the two are opposite tools.

In the kitchen

It slumps at twenty-five minutes, and that is the point: cook it in milk or stock for a puree or a soup. Do not build a salad on it, the grain will not hold.

Goes with

Carrot Onion Smoked cured pork belly Thyme Cream Walnut oil

Same species

Beluga lentil Puy lentil Lentils Red lentil

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