Lentils with chorizo
Lentils with chorizo

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lentils with chorizo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Rinse lentils; place in large pot. Peel carrot, onion and garlic cloves. Add vegetables, whole, to pressure-cooker along with bay leaf.

Lentils with chorizo is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lentils with chorizo is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lentils with chorizo using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lentils with chorizo:
  1. Get 750 g pardina lentils (small ones)
  2. Get 1 large spring onion
  3. Take 1 leek
  4. Get 3 carrots
  5. Prepare 1 garlic clove
  6. Prepare 1 piece ginger
  7. Get 1 tsp aji rojo (or half chopped red chilli)
  8. Get 1 tsp pimentón dulce (paprika)
  9. Make ready 1-2 bay leaves
  10. Take 1-2 bacon strips (1 cm wide)
  11. Prepare 3 Spanish chorizos
  12. Make ready Water
  13. Take Olive oil
  14. Get Salt
  15. Take 1 ripe tomato

Shake the pan now and again to thicken the liquid. In the Mexican region of Yucatán Península, Lentil soup is a rich combination of pork meat, chorizo, and sausages with carrots and potatoes. See, even though all of us are Mexicans, everyone has its very own particular way of cooking a lentil soup. So, next time you see a recipe for a Mexican Lentil soup thinks twice.

Steps to make Lentils with chorizo:
  1. Peel and cut the leek, onion and carrots into very small pieces. Grate the garlic clove and the ginger. Poach it slowly in a pan with olive oil for around 10 minutes (if you are using red chili instead of aji, cut it in very small peaces and add it here!)
  2. After 10-12 minutes, add the bacon and tomato - peeled and cut into small pieces -, the ají (if you are using it dry), the bay leaves and salt. Let poach for 5 more minutes
  3. Then add the paprika, and after a minute, not more (otherwise the paprika will get burnt), add the lentils - previously washed and drained. Add enough water, more than to cover the lentils, but not too much, so that they do not remain watery at the end (we can always correct if water evaporates!)
  4. When they get to boil, leave them over medium heat for around 20 minutes. Then, add the chorizo ​​(I normally cut it into slices about 1.5 cm thick)
  5. Cook them for around 20-30 more minutes, until the lentils are soft, and add more water if needed. We normally serve it with some white rice. Enjoy them!!!

Lentils with chorizo are a touch with reality, a traditional and democratic peasants recipe that every Spanish family has been eating for generations. One single recipe with as many versions as grandmas there are in the country. And above all those different versions only one absolute truth… the bigger the love, the better the lentils. Soupy Spanish Lentils with Chorizo and Manchego Toast will have you not minding winter! Braised lentils with spicy chorizo sausage kicked up with red wine and Spanish spices and served with crusty bread with melted Manchego cheese is the ultimate winter comfort food!

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