b's Slow Lazy Lentils in Tomato Sauce

Lazy because you just put stuff in a saucepan and add water if needed. Slow because it takes around forty minutes, much less if the lentils are canned. Quantities are up to taste.
For anyone who's willing to eat a lot of lentils.

Ingredience

• Lentils (canned or dry)
• Tomato Sauce (one can)
• Chopped Onion (optional, any amount but more than half is a lot lot)
• Chopped Carrot (optional, any amount)
• Chopped Celery (optional, any amount)
• (where I live they sell frozen bags of chopped carrots onions and celery, that would be ideal)
• Garlic Clover(s) (optional)
• some Oil (olive oil if you can)
• some Salt, or Soy Sauce if you want
• some Basil (optional)
• Water
• Knife (optional)
• Spoon
• Saucepan

Directions

I recommend either doing Plain (just tomato and Garlic), with Onion (no Garlic), or with Onion, Carrot, and Celery. But do whatever, add chocolate if you want.

1. Chop the Onion/ Onion Carrot, and Celery with the Knife if you have to (rip);
2. If you're adding just Onion, cook it for a bit with Oil in the Saucepan first;
3. Put the Tomato Sauce in the Saucepan and put it on the fire on low;
4. Add Salt/Soy Sauce, Oil (one spoon is fine I think but more tastes better :) ), and a glass of Water
   (remember: you can always add more salt later but you can't remove it);
5. Add Onion Carrot Celery/Garlic.
6. Add Lentils:
   • If the Lentils are canned, remove their water first. Let cook for like 10 minutes, or at least until the carrots are soft.
   • If the Lentils are dry, let cook until they're cooked. You can tell because they start to slpit apart;
7. Stir with the Spoon sometimes and add more Water if it's too dry, it can burn! The lentils can burn touching the bottom of the pan.
8. Add Basil;
9. Eat, even directly from the saucepan :)!

VVVincenzo

great recipy I tried it last night but I didn't have lentils so I used beans and swapped the tomato sauce with a big chunk of molten cheese for taste and cooked it in the microwave in a cup because I couldn't find the lightwr to turn on the stove. I ate it with toast, thank you :-)

21.09.2024