Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lentils. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lentils is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Lentils is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lentils using 10 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lentils:
Make ready 2 cup lentils
Prepare 3 clove garlic
Prepare 2 tbsp chilli paste
Make ready 2 slice bacon
Get 1/2 cup diced onions
Take 1 salt
Prepare 1 pepper
Make ready 1 oil
Take 3 bay leaf
Make ready 6 cup hot water
Instructions to make Lentils:
wash lentils. make sure there isn't any bad ones there or small rocks.
in a pot add a bit of oil about 3 table spoons.
add onions garlic and bacon . saute till bacon releases some fat and onions and garlic get translucent.
add rinsed lentils and allow them to soak up some flavors maybe about 10 minutes.
add chilli paste
add warm water
toss in bay leaves.
add salt pepper to taste but don't forget bacon is salty so don't over do it.
cover on med heat but leave lid open slightly.
you can sub sausage in place of bacon.
you can add small pieces of potato if you like.
my grandmother would add bits of pumpkin.
let it all cook for about 45 minutes. don't let it dry out. if you see it's getting dry turn off heat and close lid.
also remember to remove leaves at the end.
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