Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, pan, frying pan, cutting board, knife, spatula, tablespoon, colander, bowl.
Ingredients
| Components | amount |
| Green lentils | 1 stack |
| Onion | 1 PC. |
| Sweet pepper | 1 PC. |
| Tomato paste | 1 tbsp. l |
| Vegetable oil | 1 tbsp. l |
| Salt | taste |
| Mint and Paprika | taste |
Step cooking
- Boil water in a saucepan. When the water boils, 1 cup of washed lentils is poured into it, the pan is covered with a lid. It will cook for about 15 minutes.
- On a cutting board, onions are cut into small cubes.
- Sweet pepper need to cut the tail, then cut into two halves and remove the grains. Two halves of sweet pepper are finely chopped with a knife.
- A little vegetable oil is poured into a heated frying pan. Sliced sweet pepper is laid out on it.
- When the pepper is passaged a little, add chopped onion to it. The ingredients are fried for a while, while they should be periodically stirred with a spatula or tablespoon. After a couple of minutes, 1 tablespoon of tomato paste is added to them.
- The ingredients are thoroughly mixed and a little more passer. After a few minutes, when the vegetables are slightly fried, boiled lentils are added to them.
- The ingredients are thoroughly mixed and fried for several minutes, while they must be stirred all the time. Boiling water is poured into the pan. its amount should be sufficient so that all the ingredients are immersed in a liquid.
- The pan is covered with a lid, after which the ingredients are simmered for 10 minutes. After the appointed period, you need to remove the lid, and if all the water evaporates and the lentils thicken, you need to add more so that the mass becomes liquid again.
- After another 5 minutes, salt is added to the container to taste. Paprika and mint are poured after it, and again, in quantity at its discretion. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed. On this, the process of cooking lentils comes to an end, bon appetit.
Video recipe
A video from the creator of a lentil recipe with onions and peppers will illustrate in detail the entire cooking process. He will always come to the rescue, if in the step-by-step guide one of the cooking stages is not covered clearly or in detail. On the other hand, it will be useful to watch the video even before you start your own actions.
In this case, you will have a general idea of what, how and in what order to do. This will simplify the task and reduce the possibility of your own mistakes.
Lentils with onions and peppers are a classic Turkish dish. It combines good taste, high calorie content and a simple and quick cooking process. At the same time, lentils can be a side dish to any meat dish, be it chicken or fish. In addition, to give it a more rich and varied taste, you can use many spices and spices. Cumin, cumin, ground ginger, a mixture of peppers, turmeric, saffron and nutmeg are appropriate.
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