Hi, I am Marie. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare lentil stew with crusty bread recipe. Never skip a recipe of the day again. Here are our most recent very easy family recipes to try. Nowadays, I will make it a bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Lentil stew with crusty bread Recipe
Lentil stew with crusty bread is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Lentil stew with crusty bread is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lentil stew with crusty bread using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:
- Make ready dried green lentils (soaked overnight - do not use tinned)
- Prepare medium sized onion diced
- Get ripe tomatoes diced
- Take medium sized carrots diced
- Make ready garlic
- Take ground cumin
- Make ready ground all spice
- Prepare ground coriander
- Make ready bay leaves
- Get paprika
- Make ready olive oil
- Prepare water for cooking
- Make ready long red chillies
- Get Salt - according to your taste
- Make ready black pepper
- Take Variations to stew can be made for more vegetables to be added:
- Make ready small white eggplant diced
- Get green zucchini diced
- Prepare harrissa
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!
So that is going to wrap this up with this distinctive dish lentil stew with crusty bread recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am sure you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Happy cooking.
