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Home Dish Lentils with Fresh Pasta and Caramelized Onions

Lentils with Fresh Pasta and Caramelized Onions

Name: How to cook Lentils with Fresh Pasta and Caramelized Onions - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

pomdoro

Lentils with Fresh Pasta and Caramelized Onions

Delicious simple lentil dish!

Ingredient

Food ration :

4 servings

Cooking time :

30 mins

6 oz

fresh pasta or 4oz dried pasta

5 tbsp

olive oil or more (2 tbs) to taste

1 large

uncooked green or brown lentils

1 tbsp

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Saute onions in 2 tbs olive oil. Cook 5 minutes with lid on, then reduce heat, remove lid and continue to caramelize.

* Step 2

Once brown and caramelized, remove from heat.

* Step 3

Use kitchen towel to spread out lentils and look for any stones.

* Step 4

Rinse lentils.

* Step 5

Put 2 cups of water in pot and bring to boil. Add lentils.

* Step 6

Boil for 2 to 3 minutes then turn down to simmer and cook until tender will depend on lentil. Some lentils will cook in only ten minutes, no soaking.

* Step 7

Once tender, drain and reserve the lentil water. (This yielded about 7 oz.)

* Step 8

Add enough water to reserved liquid to equal 2 1/2 liters. Bring lentil water mixture to a boil and add salt 2 1/2 tsp sea salt. Add pasta. Cook until "al dente" (not fully cooked, but tender- should still see some white). Fresh pasta adds great flavor and texture!

* Step 9

In the meantime, pour the rest of the oil in the bottom of serving bowl.

* Step 10

Mix the lentil and onions in bowl.

* Step 11

Combine the pasta and lentils with caramelized onions. Garnish with fresh parsley and pinch of pepper. Serve immediately.

* Step 12

15 minute variation: Use precooked lentils. Will not be as flavorful as cooking in lentil broth, but still an easy way to incorporate lentils in your diet.

* Step 13

Caramelized onions.

* Step 14

Add cooked lentils to caramelized onions and heat through. At same time, boil pasta in salted water, drain and combine. Note: Recipe inspired from Claudia Roden's Lentils with Pasta and caramelized onions. Her food is rustic, simple with Arabesque influences. I would highly recommend her recipes!