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Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils)

Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

70 min Medium High fiber Heart healthy Diabetic friendly Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

  • 2 cups brown lentils
  • 2 potato
  • 2 carrot
  • 1 onion
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 tsp sweet paprika
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 6 cups vegetable broth
  • 1 tsp salt

How to cook it

  1. Rinse the lentils well in a colander; there is no need to soak them beforehand.
  2. Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the chopped onion, garlic, carrot, and green pepper over medium heat until softened, about 8 minutes.
  3. Stir in the paprika and the chopped tomato and cook for 2 minutes until fragrant.
  4. Add the lentils, the diced potato, the bay leaf, and the broth, bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer uncovered for 40 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the lentils are tender and the stew has thickened.
  5. Season with the salt, fish out the bay leaf, and let the pot rest a few minutes so it settles before ladling into bowls.

Serve it with

A Spanish lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
Medium
Protein quality
Partial
Food groups it covers
Pulses and Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Lentejas (Spanish Stewed Lentils) takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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