Lentil Cookies

Lookies, and the Antidote to Heartbreak

Depending on how long you’ve been here, you might recall Bean of the Week, a platform where each week I released a new bean and developed ~5 recipes a week with that bean. The series lasted five weeks and was discontinued at the time due to low engagement.

Looking back, I don’t think that was the series; I think that is just what happens when you are no longer eating only beans for 30 days. Either way, that development period is a time I look back at with great fondness. I had a level of resilience fueled by heartbreak that I occasionally yearn for in my current legume motivation. I was also fueled by the daylight hours of summer and the rich excitement of being able to incorporate non-beans into my diet for the first time in a month. But I believe the fact that I was still lovelorn over something outside of legumes did help.

In my lovelorn state, I was reminded of when I had made him cookies for our fourth date. I needed to reclaim my cookie scoop. The Lookie was born:

This recipe took a bit of a toll on me. It was hard fought. I was not willing to settle for a cakey, tastes-like-the-back-of-a-health-food-store lentil cookie. But I also didn’t want lentils in a normal cookie. I tried my best to keep it healthy-ish. Let me know if you would agree.

The key to the success of these cookies: chill your dough for at least one hour—I would say 2+… If you don’t, you get this:

Yes. That is the identical recipe when baked direct from mixing instead of letting the dough come together first. PLEASE CHILL YOUR DOUGH!

I can’t afford my supporters to be eating the disgusting rounds of bean cookies I eat when developing these things. It is for me to make mistakes with beans so that you can all experience bean-supreme.

For the recipe: