How to Make Favorite Lentil stew (lentejas)

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lentil stew (lentejas). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Lentil stew (lentejas) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lentil stew (lentejas) is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew (lentejas):

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

You will love this protein and fiber packed meal! 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. 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'. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume.

Steps 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.

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'. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. This easy Spanish lentil soup recipe (sopa de lentejas) is a hearty affair with the addition of pork loin and chorizo Click Play to See This Sopa de Lentejas: Spanish Lentil Soup Recipe Come Together. This is a lentil stew recipe I learned in Spain.

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