Lentil stew (lentejas). Recipe Remix: Leftover stew makes great nachos. Top chips with stew then smother with cheese, microwave to. So easy to make and so delicious!
To cook the lentils: Put in a saucepan, cover with water. I spent a semester studying in Seville, Spain, and the woman I lived with made sopa de lentejas almost every week. This stew, despite its somewhat unique tropical twist, translates well to American grocery stores, and is even more comforting in Cleveland and other chilly cities in the fall or winter.
Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lentil stew (lentejas). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Recipe Remix: Leftover stew makes great nachos. Top chips with stew then smother with cheese, microwave to. So easy to make and so delicious!
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lentil stew (lentejas) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew (lentejas):
- {Make ready 250 gr. of lentils.
- {Make ready 1 of chorizo (or a few slices if you can't get a small sausage-shaped one).
- {Get 100 gr. of serrano ham.
- {Get 1 of large onion.
- {Get 1 of small glass of red wine.
- {Make ready 2 cloves of (optional).
- {Get 1 of red pepper (optional).
- {Prepare of Half a small glass of olive oil.
- {Get 1 of bayleaf.
- {Prepare 2 of large carrots.
- {Get 3 of small potatoes.
- {Prepare 2 cloves of garlic.
- {Get 1 pinch of saffron.
- {Make ready of fresh parsley.
- {Take of salt and pepper.
Delicious and hearty Vegan Lentil Stew, so easy to prepare from everyday kitchen ingredients. Enjoy this hearty Vegan Lentil Stew, it is perfect comfort stew. It is loaded with carrots, potatoes, celery. This lentil stew is a very simple one pot wonder that I grew up with that I make regularly and is a classic Spanish dish known as 'potaje de lentejas'.
Instructions to make Lentil stew (lentejas):
- Soak the lentils for half an hour. Even though small lentils in packets usually don't need soaking, Spanish women tend to soak anyway.
- Cut the ham and chorizo into dice-shaped pieces. Peel and wash the carrots and potatoes. Slice the carrots and halve the potatoes (unless they are very small). Wash and slice a small red pepper (optional)..
- Drain the lentils and put them in a saucepan. Add enough water to cover them and add the ham, chorizo, carrots, potatoes, bayleaf, pepper, parsley, a little salt, saffron and wine. Also add the cloves if you want the lentils to have a slightly spicey air to them. Put the pan over a low heat and cover..
- Slice the onion and garlic and fry, stirring all the time. After a minute or so, add the sliced red pepper. This is optional and adds a slightly sweet flavour to the lentejas. When soft, add to the other ingredients in the saucepan..
- Let the lentil stew simmer for at least 40 minutes. Boil off any excess liquid at the end..
- Vegetarian Spanish lentils: To make a vegetarian version of Spanish lentil soup, just substitute the chorizo and ham for more vegetables. We recommend adding a little celery (not the leaves), 3 artichokes (without the stalk and outer leaves and cut into halves), 100gr wild mushrooms (if you can get any, otherwise normal ones, washed and sliced), a sprig of rosemary, a piece of lemon peel and a pinch of nutmeg and a pinch of sweet paprika. Put all of these into the saucepan in step 3. You may also like to add a vegtable stock cube..
Soak the lentils for half an hour. Even though small lentils in packets usually don't need soaking Drain the lentils and put them in a saucepan. Add enough water to cover them and add the ham. I already blogged the Thermomix version of this Spanish Lentil Soup/Stew (Lentejas) recipe a few years ago (find it here). Here it is now in Instant Pot Spanish Lentil Soup (Lentejas) recipe format!
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