Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lentil stew (lentejas). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lentil stew (lentejas) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lentil stew (lentejas) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lentil stew (lentejas) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew (lentejas):
- Take 250 gr. lentils
- Take 1 chorizo (or a few slices if you can't get a small sausage-shaped one)
- Make ready 100 gr. serrano ham
- Get 1 large onion
- Get 1 small glass of red wine
- Make ready 2 cloves (optional)
- Get 1 red pepper (optional)
- Prepare Half a small glass of olive oil
- Get 1 bayleaf
- Get 2 large carrots
- Take 3 small potatoes
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Get 1 pinch saffron
- Prepare fresh parsley
- Take salt and pepper
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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.
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'. Lentils, Spaetzle and Saiten is a classic German recipe. It's an easy recipe and, in a pinch, you can buy the Spaetzle instead of making your own. German Lentil Stew With Noodles and Frankfurters. Delicious and hearty Vegan Lentil Stew, so easy to prepare from everyday kitchen ingredients.
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