Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Add the chopped peppers and fry gently for a few minutes, then add the diced carrots. Fry them together on a medium to high heat (stirring as necessary) until they begin to go golden brown. Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero. Jump to: Recipe Weight Loss Tips.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero:
- Get Ingredients - main:
- Prepare Organic rapeseed oil
- Make ready 400 g fresh or frozen, cored & de-seeded, chopped, mixed peppers
- Take 4 medium sized organic carrots – topped, tailed & diced (no need to peel them if they’re organic)
- Prepare 1 medium to large onion – peeled & chopped
- Get 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Get 5 cloves garlic – peeled & roughly sliced
- Take 3 sticks celery – roughly chopped
- Prepare 300 g organic Jerusalem artichokes or potatoes (no need to peel them if they’re organic) – top, tailed where needed & diced
- Get 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- Take 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Get 3 tbsps cider vinegar (white wine vinegar, left over cider or white wine will work too)
- Prepare 20 turns of the black pepper grinder
- Make ready 1 tsp sea salt
- Get 1 litre chicken stock
- Make ready 200 g dried puy lentils
- Make ready 4 bay leaves
- Get 300 g whole button mushrooms
- Prepare 300 g roughly chopped cabbage
- Prepare Ingredients - topping:
- Take 1 whole Cauliflower including leaves & stem – quartered
- Make ready Cavolo nero
Left over chicken from a Sunday roast would also work well in this. Whilst the stew and dumplings are cooking, heat a pan over a medium-hire fire with olive oil and add minced garlic. Stir-fry together with the onion for a few minutes, add the lentils, the stock and enough water to cover the vegetables. Add a couple of shredded cavolo nero* leaves (stalk removed) and let the residual heat wilt it.
Instructions to make Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero:
- Add around 2 tbsb of the rapeseed oil to a roasting pan and then place the pan in the oven. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Place the quartered cauliflower in the hot roasting pan (you could also add some halved sweet potatoes and large chunks of squash, which are great throughout the week as a side to or as part of lunch time salads). Drizzle around 1 tbsp of the rapeseed oil over the cauliflower (use more oil if you’re adding sweet potato &/or squash). Bake for 1 to 1 ½ hours
- While the cauliflower is baking, heat around 5 tbsps of the rapeseed oil in a large, heavy, cast iron pan with a lid - put the lid to one side. Add the chopped peppers and fry gently for a few minutes, then add the diced carrots.
- Fry them together on a medium to high heat (stirring as necessary) until they begin to go golden brown. Then add the diced carrots and fry for 10 minutes (stirring as necessary).
- Turn down the heat down low, then add the fennel seeds and onions. Fry gently for about 10 minutes.
- Add the sliced garlic, diced Jerusalem artichokes (or potatoes) and chopped celery. Fry gently for a further 5 minutes.
- Add the smoked paprika, chilli flakes, salt and pepper. Fry gently for a few minutes. Then add the vinegar and deglaze the pan.
- Add the chicken stock, lentils and bay leaves. Then stir.
- Add the whole mushrooms. Do not stir. Put the lid on and turn the heat down to it's lowest setting and leave for about an hour. You may need to gently stir around the 40 minute mark, to ensure the contents do not stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Place the chopped cabbage on top. Do not stir. Replace the lid and simmer for a further 15 minutes.
- Stir & then the stew is ready to serve.
- Serve with the baked cauliflower and some steamed cavolo nero on top.
Stir-fry together with the onion for a few minutes, add the lentils, the stock and enough water to cover the vegetables. Add a couple of shredded cavolo nero* leaves (stalk removed) and let the residual heat wilt it. Left over chicken from a Sunday roast would also work well in this. Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Stir in the garlic and cook for another minute or two.
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