Spiced Red Lentil Purée

They do lots of nice things with lentils in Iran: in general they are much kinder to them than we are. The lentil has had lots of good PR in recent years and is beginning to slough off the dour vegetarian image it acquired after the 1960s. But it has a way to go before it is enshrined, as it should be, a paragon of nutritional value and culinary versatility. This purée is great. It can be eaten as a snack on its own with a little goats’