French
Saucisses et Lentilles (Sausages with Stewed Lentils)
Saucisses et Lentilles (Sausages with Stewed Lentils) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. 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.
Ingredients
- 8 pork sausages (Toulouse or Montbeliard style)
- 1.5 cups green or brown lentils
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the chopped onion, carrot, and garlic over medium heat until softened, about 6 minutes.
- Add the lentils, bay leaf, thyme, and broth, bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer uncovered for about 20 minutes, until the lentils are tender but still hold their shape.
- Meanwhile, brown the sausages in a separate skillet over medium heat, turning occasionally, until cooked through, about 12 minutes.
- Season the lentils with the salt and pepper and fish out the bay leaf.
- Slice the sausages if you like, nestle them into the lentils, and serve hot straight from the pot.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Saucisses et Lentilles (Sausages with Stewed Lentils), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Saucisses et Lentilles (Sausages with Stewed Lentils) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| 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
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Pulses, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Saucisses et Lentilles (Sausages with Stewed Lentils) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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More to cook
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From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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