Lentils with vegetables

Fast, delicious and nutritious dish of red lentils. Lentils with vegetables are served freshly cooked, hot, richly seasoned with fresh herbs (parsley, dill or cilantro). With this recipe, it is easy to follow the recommendation to eat one dish a day from lentils, since lentils are a unique and versatile product, it is suitable for people of various constitutions.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 24 % 4 g
Fats 12 % 2 g
Carbohydrates 65 % 11 g
87 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make lentils with vegetables? Prepare the products necessary for cooking lentils with vegetables: lentils, onions, carrots, bell peppers, herbs, spices. You will also need a little water (or broth, broth), oil (instead of ghee, you can take vegetable) and salt.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the carrots and onions, cut the onions into small pieces, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Heat the oil in a frying pan, heat the spices in it slightly.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Lay out the chopped onion and carrot, lightly fry.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add chopped bell pepper. Simmer until soft. At this stage, you can add other vegetables, for example, zucchini, tomatoes (without skin).

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Add lentils to the vegetables.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour in water, add salt. Bring to a boil, cover and cook on low heat for 15 minutes. The lentils should become soft and crumble easily. It will take longer to prepare a dish using green lentils.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    The thickness of the dish can be adjusted by evaporating excess moisture and adding the missing one. Add clean chopped greens to the finished budo.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Mix and serve.

Without a doubt, lentils with vegetables are the perfect balanced dish for every day!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Keep in mind that the final result in this dish also depends on how you chop the carrots: grated carrots will turn into mush during heat treatment and mix evenly with the rest of the ingredients, cut into strips or cubes will retain their shape.

The calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Turmeric - 325   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289   kcal/100g
  • Ghee - 892   kcal/100g
  • Red lentils - 314   kcal/100g

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