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Lentil stew with crusty bread Recipe
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lentil stew with crusty bread using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:
- Make ready dried green lentils (soaked overnight - do not use tinned)
- Get medium sized onion diced
- Take ripe tomatoes diced
- Get medium sized carrots diced
- Get garlic
- Take ground cumin
- Make ready ground all spice
- Make ready ground coriander
- Make ready bay leaves
- Make ready paprika
- Prepare olive oil
- Prepare water for cooking
- Prepare long red chillies
- Take Salt - according to your taste
- Get black pepper
- Take Variations to stew can be made for more vegetables to be added:
- Get small white eggplant diced
- Take green zucchini diced
- Take harrissa
Instructions 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!
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