Chef critique
Ras el Hanout Lentil & Squash Stew
A well-proportioned, flavorful, and realistic lentil and squash stew with spot-on seasoning and cook times, needing only minor formatting cleanup in the prep step.
Score: 9/10
Suggested fixes
- Move rinsing and sorting the 3/4 cup (about 5.3 oz) dry lentils into Step 1, and format the multi-ingredient prep in Step 1 as a bulleted list with a blank line before and after the list.
Issues
- low / clarity: Step 1 combines six vegetable preparations in a single paragraph instead of using a bullet list separated by blank lines for preparations of more than three ingredients, and it omits rinsing and sorting the lentils (which appears at the start of active cooking in Step 2).
Strengths
- Well-calibrated seasoning using 1 1/2 teaspoons fine table salt layered during the aromatic sauté and the simmer, hitting the 1% target for the vegetables and cooked lentils.
- Smart staggered cooking times for the lentils and cubed squash so neither turns mushy before the other is tender.
- Accurate time, calorie, and cost estimates, with exact ingredient quantities stated on first use.