Steps to Make Quick Lentil stew with crusty bread

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lentil stew with crusty bread using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:

1. Make ready dried green lentils (soaked overnight - do not use tinned)
2. Get medium sized onion diced
3. Prepare ripe tomatoes diced
4. Make ready medium sized carrots diced
5. Get garlic
6. Make ready ground cumin
7. Get ground all spice
8. Prepare ground coriander
9. Make ready bay leaves
10. Get paprika
11. Take olive oil
12. Prepare water for cooking
13. Make ready long red chillies
14. Take Salt - according to your taste
15. Take black pepper
16. Get Variations to stew can be made for more vegetables to be added:
17. Prepare small white eggplant diced
18. Prepare green zucchini diced
19. Prepare harrissa

Instructions to make Lentil stew with crusty bread:

1. Add the olive oil to a stock pot (large pot). Add the onion and cook until opaque on medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute stirring until fragrant. Add the sliced chillies leaving a few for garnish at the end.
2. Add the diced tomatoes and all of the spices (cumin, coriander, all spice, paprika, bay leaf, salt and pepper) and stir until combined. Add 250ml of the water to combine ingredients and cook for 3-5 minutes.
3. Add the lentils, carrots and the rest of the water. You can either soak them overnight to reduce cooking time or you can add more water (500ml) to recipe and cook them longer if you haven't soaked them. Cook from 1-3hrs on low heat. Keep an eye on them to make sure they aren't sticking to the bottom of your pot otherwise it will get a bitter burnt taste.
4. If the stew gets a bit thick simply add small amounts of water to avoid sticky stew or burning. It should have stew juices to soak up with crusty bread loaf or baguette.
5. When the lentils are soft you can stop cooking. Serve in bowls with warm crusty bread and garnish with sliced red chillies and fresh coriander leaves.
6. Bon appetit!

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