How to learn how to cook delicious red lentils with a simple recipe 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils:glass, coarse grater, pan, stove, frying pan with a lid, cutting board, knife, spatula, tablespoon.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Fill a glass of pre-washed red lentils with two glasses of hot water and set to boil (do not salt!). At the end of cooking - after 15-20 minutes, when the lentils are ready - add some salt.
   
2. On a coarse grater, rub 1 onion. Also rub 2 carrots.
   
3. Finely chop a couple of garlic cloves (can be passed through a garlic squeezer). Bell pepper cut into thin strips. We cut the tomato and scald it with boiling water, after which we remove the skin. Cut into small cubes.
   
4. Pour 2-3 tbsp into a preheated pan. l olive oil. Pour to taste curry. Add again to the taste of red and black ground pepper. Also add a little paprika.
   
5. Add garlic for flavor. Stir constantly so that the spices do not burn.
   
6. Next we send onions to the pan, mix.
   
7. As soon as the onion begins to change color - we fall asleep carrots, mix.
   
8. We also put sweet pepper in the pan.
   
9. Next, add the tomato. Do not forget to constantly stir.
   
10. We spread 3-4 tbsp in the vegetable mass. l tomato sauce. We add to taste.
    
11. We cover the pan with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes on low heat.
    
12. Pour the finished lentils into the pan, mix, try on the salt - add salt if necessary and, closing the lid, simmer for another 5 minutes.
    
13. Serve as a side dish, can be decorated with greens.
    

Useful Tips

• Other ingredients can be safely added to such a dish, for example: celery, cauliflower, dill, basil, cilantro, suneli hops.
• Instead of tomato sauce, you can add tomato paste or put more tomatoes.

Video recipe

The video shows the process of preparing a simple, nutritious, healthy and tasty dish of red lentils with vegetables.

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