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Lentils and Rice


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Lentils and Rice on plateThis is a healthy, delicious meatless meal. It is a bit time consuming, but totally worth it and great for a cold day.


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Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 6-8

Ingredients:

ingredients
 

Optional: yogurt, cucumbers, tomatoes, mint

Steps:

  1. In a large heavy saucepan over medium heat, brown lentils in 2 Tbsp oil, about 5 minutes, stirring often.
  2. Lentils in pan
     
  3. Let it cool before you put the boiling water or stock in. The hot lentils will pop and go all over the kitchen.
  4. browned Lentils in pan
     
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  5. Add the 3 cups boiling stock or water and the salt and pepper.
  6. adding water to lentils
     
  7. Cook uncovered 10 minutes over medium heat.
  8. cooking Lentils
     
  9. Stir in the rice and 1 cup stock.
  10. Lentils and Rice
     
  11. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 25 minutes without stirring.
  12. Lentils and Rice cooked in pan
     
  13. Meanwhile make sauce; heat all the sauce ingredients together in a medium saucepan.
  14. tomato sauce in pan
     
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  15. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 20-30 minutes.
  16. cooked tomato sauce
     
  17. To make browned onions, heat oil in a small skillet.
  18. browning onions
     
  19. Saute onions and garlic over medium heat till browned.
  20. browned onions
     
  21. To serve, put rice lentil mixture on a platter, pour tomato sauce over and top with browned onions. Top with optional ingredients such as yogurt, cucumbers, tomatoes and mint.

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Anonymous
January 9, 20190 found this helpful

Neither the amount of lentils nor rice are listed in this recipe.

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Anonymous
February 15, 20190 found this helpful

The amount of each is listed with the ingredients.

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January 9, 20190 found this helpful

this sounds lovely,im going to try it!could you tell me how much lentils to use please-they look like green ones in the pic-will any type do?thanks!x

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January 10, 20190 found this helpful

I'm sorry but the amounts were left off the original recipe. We have added them in now. It should be 1 1/4 cups lentils. 1 1-2 cups rice

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January 10, 20190 found this helpful

The amount is now listed above, sorry for the error.

Do let us know how the recipe turns out.

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January 9, 20190 found this helpful

1 1/4 cups lentils
1 1/2 cups rice

Do not know why these ingredients were eliminated from recipe.

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