Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lentil stew with crusty bread. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Lentil stew with crusty bread step by step. Add the olive oil to a stock pot (large pot). Add the onion and cook until opaque on medium heat.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lentil stew with crusty bread using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:
- Get 1 cup dried green lentils (soaked overnight - do not use tinned)
- Prepare 1 medium sized onion diced
- Take 2 ripe tomatoes diced
- Make ready 2 medium sized carrots diced
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic
- Get 3 teaspoons ground cumin
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground all spice
- Take 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- Get 3 bay leaves
- Get 2 tablespoons paprika
- Take 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
- Get 750 ml water for cooking
- Make ready 2 long red chillies
- Get Salt - according to your taste
- Get 1 tablespoon black pepper
- Take Variations to stew can be made for more vegetables to be added:
- Take 2 small white eggplant diced
- Get 2 green zucchini diced
- Make ready 2 tablespoons harrissa
Add the sausage and cook until lightly browned on all sides. Using a slotted spoon remove from the heat and place on a paper towel lined plate and set aside. Perfect with crusty bread, a nice salad, a heap of warm and fluffy grains, or just some simply steamed broccoli, ripe avocado & a squeeze of lemon. This smoky red lentil stew hits the right note of comforting, easy-casual-healthy (as opposed to overly-prescriptive-and-joyless-healthy lol), quick, and easy to throw together on a whim.
Steps to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:
- Add the olive oil to a stock pot (large pot). Add the onion and cook until opaque on medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute stirring until fragrant. Add the sliced chillies leaving a few for garnish at the end.
- Add the diced tomatoes and all of the spices (cumin, coriander, all spice, paprika, bay leaf, salt and pepper) and stir until combined. Add 250ml of the water to combine ingredients and cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Add the lentils, carrots and the rest of the water. You can either soak them overnight to reduce cooking time or you can add more water (500ml) to recipe and cook them longer if you haven't soaked them. Cook from 1-3hrs on low heat. Keep an eye on them to make sure they aren't sticking to the bottom of your pot otherwise it will get a bitter burnt taste.
- If the stew gets a bit thick simply add small amounts of water to avoid sticky stew or burning. It should have stew juices to soak up with crusty bread loaf or baguette.
- When the lentils are soft you can stop cooking. Serve in bowls with warm crusty bread and garnish with sliced red chillies and fresh coriander leaves.
- Bon appetit!
The best lentil stew is lightly spiced and satisfying for all the family. This one, made with split red peas is quick and easy, good value and healthy. This vegetarian recipe works as a main meal or as part of an Indian feast. Leftovers would make a simple lunch. Whenever you eat it, crusty bread on the side is all you need to serve it with.
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