Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Puy lentils are considered by many to be the best lentil because of their unique peppery flavour and the fact they hold their shape during cooking. We have tons of Puy lentil recipes that are healthy and comforting, like Puy lentil bolognese and lentil shepherd's pie. This fragrant, spiced vegetable stew combines lentils, carrots, and cauliflower in a savory broth seasoned with cumin, coriander, turmeric and cinnamon.
Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero:
- Take Ingredients - main:
- Prepare Organic rapeseed oil
- Get 400 g fresh or frozen, cored & de-seeded, chopped, mixed peppers
- Prepare 4 medium sized organic carrots – topped, tailed & diced (no need to peel them if they’re organic)
- Get 1 medium to large onion – peeled & chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic – peeled & roughly sliced
- Take 3 sticks celery – roughly chopped
- Take 300 g organic Jerusalem artichokes or potatoes (no need to peel them if they’re organic) – top, tailed where needed & diced
- Take 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- Take 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Prepare 3 tbsps cider vinegar (white wine vinegar, left over cider or white wine will work too)
- Prepare 20 turns of the black pepper grinder
- Prepare 1 tsp sea salt
- Prepare 1 litre chicken stock
- Make ready 200 g dried puy lentils
- Get 4 bay leaves
- Take 300 g whole button mushrooms
- Get 300 g roughly chopped cabbage
- Make ready Ingredients - topping:
- Take 1 whole Cauliflower including leaves & stem – quartered
- Make ready Cavolo nero
In this comforting dish, hearty roasted cauliflower steaks are elevated by some of our favorite Indian ingredients: savory tomato chutney, which gives bold flavor to our lentils, and warm Taste, then season with salt and pepper if desired. Serve the finished lentils topped with the roasted cauliflower. This Hearty Lentil Stew is richly flavored and loaded with chunks of fresh vegetables. This Hearty Lentil Stew is a really great quick and easy, nutritious and delicious meatless dish to pull together.
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.
Cavolo nero is my favorite type of cabbage. You could substitute with kale if you can't find cavolo nero, but cavolo nero has a sweeter taste. Then cut the cavolo nero into ribbons. Add the cavolo nero to the boiling water with baking powder. Steam the cauliflower over boiling water for five minutes, until just softening Sprinkle over the cauliflower, then bake for eight minutes, until bubbling and hot.
So that is going to wrap it up for this exceptional food puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!