How to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Lentil stew (lentejas)

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lentil stew (lentejas). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

You will need lentils, chorizo, panceta, serrano ham bone, carrots, celery, green peppers, onion, garlic, stock cube, Necesitan lentejas, chorizo, panceta. Recipe Remix: Leftover stew makes great nachos. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lentil stew (lentejas) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew (lentejas):

1. Make ready 250 gr. lentils
2. Get 1 chorizo (or a few slices if you can't get a small sausage-shaped one)
3. Make ready 100 gr. serrano ham
4. Get 1 large onion
5. Prepare 1 small glass of red wine
6. Prepare 2 cloves (optional)
7. Prepare 1 red pepper (optional)
8. Make ready Half a small glass of olive oil
9. Get 1 bayleaf
10. Get 2 large carrots
11. Make ready 3 small potatoes
12. Get 2 cloves garlic
13. Prepare 1 pinch saffron
14. Make ready fresh parsley
15. Take salt and pepper

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Steps to make Lentil stew (lentejas):

1. Soak the lentils for half an hour. Even though small lentils in packets usually don't need soaking, Spanish women tend to soak anyway
2. Cut the ham and chorizo into dice-shaped pieces. Peel and wash the carrots and potatoes. Slice the carrots and halve the potatoes (unless they are very small). Wash and slice a small red pepper (optional).
3. Drain the lentils and put them in a saucepan. Add enough water to cover them and add the ham, chorizo, carrots, potatoes, bayleaf, pepper, parsley, a little salt, saffron and wine. Also add the cloves if you want the lentils to have a slightly spicey air to them. Put the pan over a low heat and cover.
4. Slice the onion and garlic and fry, stirring all the time. After a minute or so, add the sliced red pepper. This is optional and adds a slightly sweet flavour to the lentejas. When soft, add to the other ingredients in the saucepan.
5. Let the lentil stew simmer for at least 40 minutes. Boil off any excess liquid at the end.
6. Vegetarian Spanish lentils: To make a vegetarian version of Spanish lentil soup, just substitute the chorizo and ham for more vegetables. We recommend adding a little celery (not the leaves), 3 artichokes (without the stalk and outer leaves and cut into halves), 100gr wild mushrooms (if you can get any, otherwise normal ones, washed and sliced), a sprig of rosemary, a piece of lemon peel and a pinch of nutmeg and a pinch of sweet paprika. Put all of these into the saucepan in step 3. You may also like to add a vegtable stock cube.

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