Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Spanish (vegan) lentils

Spanish (vegan) lentils
Spanish (vegan) lentils

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, spanish (vegan) lentils. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spanish (vegan) lentils is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Spanish (vegan) lentils is something that I have loved my whole life.

Begin by washing the lentils and then putting into a pan with the stock, tomatoes, green pepper and bay leaf. This Spanish-style vegan lentil stew is easy to make with very simple ingredients and perfect for vegans on a serious budget. Hearty and comforting, this oil-free recipe is great as a plant-based main dish for chilly evenings or as a side for a summer barbeque or picnic. Smoky, sweet and nutty flavours combine into this rich Spanish inspired vegan lentil stew.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spanish (vegan) lentils using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Spanish (vegan) lentils:
  1. Make ready 1 tin lentils
  2. Get 2 sweet potatoes
  3. Prepare 1 medium onion
  4. Get 3 garlic cloves
  5. Prepare 2 carrots
  6. Take 2 vegetable stocks
  7. Prepare 1 couple of bay leaves
  8. Prepare 1 red bell pepper
  9. Make ready to taste Salt
  10. Take to taste Pepper
  11. Take 1 tbsp turmeric powder
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
  13. Take to taste Crushed chillies/cayenne pepper
  14. Get 1 drizzle of olive oil
  15. Take Tbc ml water

Pour in enough water to cover it all plus a bit more, bring to the boil and simmer for half an hour. Check to see if more water needs adding. The lentils should end up slightly mushy, and the dish is best eaten with a spoon, accompanied by lovely bread. Blend the sauce and pour it into the pot again.

Instructions to make Spanish (vegan) lentils:
  1. Prepare all the ingredients together.
  2. Place drizzle of olive oil into a pot, pre heat then add onions after a minute add garlic. Cook both for 2 minutes. Add a little bit of water so the onions don’t burn.
  3. Add tomato and let if cook for 2 minutes. My tomatoes are blended hence why looks watery.
  4. Add carrots, sweet potato, all the spices, water to cover, vegetable stocks, bay leaves and let it cook for 30 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes.
  5. Add lentils and more water until it covers the lentils and exceeds 2 fingers. It’s important that you keep and eye and stir every couple of minutes as the lentils tend to stick to the bottom. Cook for another 15 minutes.

The lentils should end up slightly mushy, and the dish is best eaten with a spoon, accompanied by lovely bread. Blend the sauce and pour it into the pot again. This is a vegetarian version (vegan actually!) of the dish, and many people make it like this because it is much healthier than the regular version which calls for chorizo and Spanish black pudding (morcilla). Instead, more garlic and smoked paprika is used to make the flavours more intense and keep the traditional flavour. This Spanish lentil soup was originally developed in Southern Spain during the XVIII century.

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