Sabra Dardara (Lentil Salad)
My office is a 10-minute walk from home, and a 20-minute walk from a kosher restaurant, so it’s not so bad in terms of my lunch situation. For a quick bite with my coworkers, though, it’s tough if I don’t bring something from home. (I know, you’d at least expect the Beth Israel would have kosher food, right?)
Thankfully, the Children’s Hospital cafeteria has just begun offering several pre-packaged Sabra-brand products (the local Sabra, not the New York one) including hummus and taboulleh, certified by Va’ad Harabonim of Massachusetts. Today, I tried “dardara,” a type of lentil salad. Simple, wholesome and delicious: lentils, brown rice, caramelized onions, oil, salt, and water. It’s tasty when cold and would make a good hot side dish.
(A Globe article to which I linked in an earlier posting on Sabra mentions that their products are available at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. I haven’t checked, but my guess is that they’re incorporated within their salad bars, and not sold in individual containers. So, kudos to Children’s for making this kosher employee’s life easier!)