Spanish Lentil Stew

(from fearama’s recipe box)

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Serves 4 people

Categories: Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • 150 gram bacon cubes (lardons)
  • 6 sausages
  • 6 garlic cloves
  • 1/2 an onion
  • 8 spring-onions
  • 250 gram tomatoes
  • 250 gram green lentils
  • 1 big carrot
  • black pepper

Directions

  1. In a large cooking pan, heat up a tablespoon of olive oil and on a medium-to-high heat, start frying the lardons until they have released their fat.
  2. In the mean time, cut the sausages with a pair of scissors into small pieces. Stir fry the lardons with the pieces of sausage until the sausage is changing colour.

  3. Cut the garlic into very small pieces and add them to the pan – do the same with half the onion.

  4. Cut the spring-onions into small pieces; stir them into the mixture in the pan.

  5. Wash and cut the tomatoes into small pieces (the tomatoes should ideally be a sweeter and juicier type of tomatoes). Stir the tomatoes into the mixture in the pan.

  6. Rinse the lentils and add them to the pan.

  7. Cut the carrot in pieces and add it to the pan.

  8. Add water (circa 1/2 a liter)

  9. Bring the water to the boil and let it cook for about 3-4 minutes, thereafter lower the heat and let simmer for 45 mins. (occassionally stir).

  10. . Add pepper according to your own taste and this delicious dish is ready to be served.

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