Recipe of Lentil stew (lentejas)

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Lentil stew (lentejas) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Lentil stew (lentejas) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Recipe Remix: Leftover stew makes great nachos. Top chips with stew then smother with cheese, microwave to. You will need lentils, chorizo, panceta, serrano ham bone, carrots, celery, green peppers, onion, garlic, stock cube, Necesitan lentejas, chorizo, panceta.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lentil stew (lentejas) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew (lentejas):

1. Make ready 250 gr. lentils
2. Make ready 1 chorizo (or a few slices if you can't get a small sausage-shaped one)
3. Prepare 100 gr. serrano ham
4. Prepare 1 large onion
5. Make ready 1 small glass of red wine
6. Prepare 2 cloves (optional)
7. Make ready 1 red pepper (optional)
8. Prepare Half a small glass of olive oil
9. Make ready 1 bayleaf
10. Make ready 2 large carrots
11. Get 3 small potatoes
12. Prepare 2 cloves garlic
13. Prepare 1 pinch saffron
14. Make ready fresh parsley
15. Get salt and pepper

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 '. Due to the proximity it is a staple dish in most. Ethiopian Lentil Stew -A healthy Vegan Ethiopian-spiced Stew with lentil. Laced with berbere spice and Niter kibbeh.

Instructions

Instructions to make Lentil stew (lentejas):

1. Soak the lentils for half an hour. Even though small lentils in packets usually don't need soaking, Spanish women tend to soak anyway
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Let the lentil stew simmer for at least 40 minutes. Boil off any excess liquid at the end.
6. 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.

You will love this protein and fiber packed meal! To cook the lentils: Put in a saucepan, cover with water. This lentils and beef stew is really easy to make and delicious over white rice. Never too long with dishes like this. I've had lentejas con tocino, but never in an estofado like this.

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