How to cook lentils deliciously on 🥣 side dish

Kitchen appliances and utensils: knife, frying pan, cutting board, hob, spoon, pan, lid, grater, scales.

Ingredients

Product	amount
Green lentils	400 g
Bow	1 PC.
Garlic	1 clove
Carrot	1 PC.
Vegetable oil	2 tbsp. l
Salt	0.5 tsp

Step cooking

Before boiling the lentils, fill them with water and leave them for several hours or overnight, then rinse several times. This is done so that from the finished lentil you do not feel such discomfort as bloating and other unpleasant sensations. Also, swollen lentils will cook faster.
We clean one onion, wash it, cut into half rings.
Peel one carrot, rinse, rub on a coarse grater.
In a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour vegetable oil, preferably olive, put on fire. As it warms up, pour the onion, fry until transparent, stirring occasionally.
Then add carrots, mix, fry until soft carrots.
Peel the garlic clove, rinse it, cut into small cubes and send it to the pot for vegetables. We cover the pan with a lid and stew the vegetables for literally one minute.
At this time, we boil water in the kettle. Pour the lentils into the pan and fill it with water so that it rises one and a half to two fingers above the beans. The ratio of lentils and water during cooking 1: 3. Add half a teaspoon of salt, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
After this time, the lentils are ready, we can serve to the table.

Did you know? There is another option for cooking tasty and healthy lentils. It also needs to be soaked and boiled in salted water separately from vegetables, adhering to a proportion of 1: 3. Experts recommend sending 1-2 anise stars when cooking to lentils. These two ingredients have an excellent combination at the molecular level. If you do not like the anise flavor, add bay leaf, parsley root, allspice, peas, and garlic. In any case, these ingredients will make the taste of the finished bean tastier.

Simmer, after 20 minutes, check for readiness. Ready lentils will be soft. Lentils, unlike buckwheat, do not absorb water during cooking, so throw it in a colander so that the remaining water drains. Return to the pan and add a slice of butter. Butter has a unique ability to enhance the taste of any cereal. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil. It can be not only onions with carrots, but also bell peppers, asparagus, tomatoes. Combine the fried vegetables with lentils.

Experts say: to get the most from it, you need to eat with greens and raw foods that contain a large amount of vitamin C. Therefore, we recommend sprinkling lentils with chopped parsley vegetables.

Video recipe

To understand the process of preparing delicious lentils for a side dish, we recommend watching this video. You will learn how to stew vegetables, how to get the finished dish.

It is unfair that culinary experts rarely recollect lentils in our country. But it is very tasty and healthy, if it is properly boiled. We hope you have taken advantage of our recommendations, and lentils with vegetables are already being prepared in your kitchen. In the comments, share, did you soak it before cooking, what vegetables did you combine with?

Other lentil recipes

Brown lentils

Red lentils

Green lentil soup

Lentils with mushrooms

Lentil cutlets

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