Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, vegetarian lancashire hot pot. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegetarian Lancashire Hot Pot is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Vegetarian Lancashire Hot Pot is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetarian lancashire hot pot using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetarian Lancashire Hot Pot:

1. Get 1/2 cup butter
2. Prepare 250 grams red or green lentils
3. Get 5 medium russet or yellow potatoes, boiled and sliced
4. Prepare 12 cloves garlic, chopped
5. Make ready 2 large white onion
6. Prepare 2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
7. Get 6 stalks celery
8. Take 1 medium leek
9. Make ready 4 large red or serrano chili peppers, with seeds
10. Make ready 1 large tin diced tomatoes (3 cups)
11. Prepare 1 tbsp curry powder
12. Make ready 1 small tin tomato paste
13. Make ready 250 ml vegetable stock (1-1.5 cups)
14. Make ready 1 tsp vegemite
15. Prepare 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
16. Make ready 2 tbsp black pepper
17. Get 1 tbsp smoked paprika
18. Make ready 2 large turnips, boiled and chopped
19. Take 1 tsp salt (optional)
20. Make ready 1 cup red or white wine
21. Take 1 tbsp tumeric
22. Get 1 tbsp garam masala

Steps to make Vegetarian Lancashire Hot Pot:

1. Rinse lentils and dump into boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain and set aside
2. Place potatoes and turnips (peeling optional) in cold water and slowly bring to boil, boiling gently for 30 minutes. Let cool before chopping the turnips and slicing the potatoes.
3. Melt butter in an oven safe dish on the stove (or prepare casserole dish for oven transfer later) over medium heat
4. Add garlic, onion, carrots, celery, leeks and chili peppers until slightly sweated
5. Once slightly sweated, add all spices EXCEPT the paprika and work into the dish, allowing for the spices to infuse the veggies.
6. Once the ingredients start sticking slightly to the bottom of the pan, splash in the cup of wine to deglaze and allow to cook until the alcohol burns off.
7. Add the diced tomatoes, vegemite, tomato paste and worcestershire sauce to the pot. Cover until boiling, then lower heat to low and preheat the oven to 350°F.
8. Cook low and slow on the stove for 30 minutes before adding the turnips and lentils. Stir around and add the vegetable stock
9. Either dump the contents into an ovensafe dish or in the same pot, neatly arrange the sliced potatoes over the top, slightly overlapping each potato in a concentric circle.
10. If necessary, add a bit more vegetable stock until it is just below the level of the potatoes. Now sprinkle the potatoes with the paprika and pop into the preheated oven for 60 minutes.

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