Red Lentil & Carrot Stew Amongst Ham ~ dr.lechozz

Smoky flavor from the cumin, a dainty background flavor from the garlic together with merely a wee fleck of oestrus from the dried chilies made this dish a picayune "out of the everyday".

I bring to tell this was an experiment amongst using a left-over ham os to brand stock together with thence using crimson lentils - a lentil diverseness which I bring never used before. What I ended upward amongst is a super left-over make-over repast that I am completely together with utterly thrilled about!
Perhaps some of you lot are looking at the photograph together with thinking babe nutrient - good yes it form of does await a picayune similar toddler food, even thence these soft lentils along amongst the cast of ingredients inwards this stew come upward together beautifully together with sense of savor actually delicious. Even my non-eating lentil hubby said it had groovy flavor thence that's proverb a lot.
The fact is, I bring yesteryear passed crimson lentils at my local grocery shop because inwards my estimation I idea they were expensive. While I've purchased chocolate-brown lentils for nether 2 dollars, the crimson lentils were priced unopen to 5 dollars together with I saw them for over 6 dollars elsewhere! I never understood why. Recently I establish crimson lentils at Shop Rite together with they were solely $1.49. I grabbed them non actually knowing what I would make. This yesteryear weekend nosotros had baked our favorite ham thence I saved the os to brand ham stock. That was the commencement of formulating this recipe. Trust me, I "stewed" near it for 2 amount days earlier attempting it.

If you lot bring eaters who are vegetarian you lot tin supervene upon the ham stock amongst a proficient vegetable broth together with of course of report instruct out out the ham! The ham stock is slowly to make, but since I similar to skim the fatty out of it, it ends upward cooling over nighttime together with I goal it off the adjacent day.

Ham Stock:

Ham os (with some ham on it)
water to cover
2 bay leaves
2 cloves garlic
1 1/2 tsp. dark peppercorns

Place the ham os together with all the other ingredients inwards a pot. Bring to a boil together with simmer for 2-3 hours.
Allow the soup to cool down, together with thence if you lot bring time, refrigerate the stock together with instruct out it overnight.
The adjacent twenty-four hr catamenia skim off the fatty together with strain the broth to withdraw the peppercorns, bay leaves together with garlic cloves.
Either way, endure certain to strain out the peppercorns, bay leaves together with garlic cloves!

This seems similar a lot of work, but it's non difficult together with it is worth doing this thence you lot terminate upward amongst a groovy stock.

The Stew:

6 cups ham stock (or vegetable broth)
1/2 large onion (softball or larger size) - chopped small
1 lb. of carrots - sliced
2 cups crimson lentils
1 tbsp. chopped garlic (fresh or from the jounce - I used jar)
left-over ham - cutting into pieces
2-3 dried crimson chilies (or purpose cayenne pepper to taste)
salt together with dark pepper to taste
1/2 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. dry soil coriander seed
1 tbsp. petroleum (olive or canola)

Have your prep run done: chop onions, spell carrots, mensurate spices together with cutting the ham, mensurate the lentils inwards a dry out mensurate cup.
In a large stock pot oestrus the petroleum over medium oestrus together with add together inwards the onions. Stir together with create until the onions get to give off their natural juices together with bring softened a bit.
Next add together inwards the garlic, stir together with plough the oestrus to medium depression together with create for a minute.
Add inwards the carrots together with spices, chilies together with stir. At this betoken add together inwards some tabular array salt together with pepper.
Add inwards the broth together with lentils. Cover together with permit this come upward up to a bubble over medium high heat. Turn it downward to a simmer together with create for near 1 together with 1/2 hours.
Taste together with suit for seasoning. Add some ham pieces inwards together with permit them warm through together with you lot are prepare to serve this delicious stew.

As amongst most dishes, this 1 gets ameliorate together with to a greater extent than deeper inwards flavor every bit it sits. Depending on your lifestyle together with schedule you lot may desire to brand this stew over the weekend together with serve it upward during the week. The lentils are soft together with beautiful together with I merely beloved the sugariness carrots inwards this every bit well. Overall, this has beautifully subtle flavors.

As far every bit cost is concerned, this brand over repast cost $3.62 to make! It serves 8-10 portions for every bit picayune every bit 45¢ for 8 or 36¢ for 10 portions! Plus, it's proficient for you lot too: Lentils are rattling depression inwards saturated fat, cholesterol together with sodium. They are a proficient rootage of protein, iron, phosphorus together with copper. Lentils are also a rattling proficient rootage of fiber together with manganese.

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