dI really need to get a new camera with a special food option, my camera can never make my food look sexy....but it is :)
Anyways, I spent nearly all of my year in Italy munching on lentils, a friend of mine on Erasmus introduced me a recipe that her Chilean mum always cooked at home, I made a few variations to it and came up with this.....
1 large cup red lentils
Handful spinach leaves
1 large onion
4 cloves garlic
2 Chorizo sausage
Tin of chopped tomatoes
Oregano, Basil, Salt, Pepper
Stock cube
- Boil the cup of lentils in two cups of water and stock
- Cut chorizo into small pieces and fry in a little oil, add the chopped onions and garlic. When the onions are cooked and have absorbed the juices from the chorizo, add the tin of tomatoes. Add in all the herbs.
- Simmer for a few minutes and then add to the lentils, which should have absorbed all the water by now. Add a handful of spinach leaves towards the end.
- Allow it to simmer gently for 10-15 minutes.
- The flavours are quite strong so don't over do it on the portions.
- Garnish with some Parmigiano Reggiano.
a question about lentils: do you know how long the cooking time is?
ReplyDeleteCooking time for lentils differs depending on the lentils you are using,
ReplyDeleteFor red lentils, as they are small, in boiling water they could be between 20-30 minutes.
Green and brown lentils are bigger and thicker and so can take up to an hour :)