Lentils with spaetzle

Ingredients for 5 servings:

• 500 g lentils
• 5 large potatoes
• 300 g bacon, lean, diced
• 4 cubes vegetable stock, instant
• n. B. water
• 1 kg flour
• 8 eggs
• some water
• some salt
• some vinegar
• some vegetable broth, instant
• possibly sausages, wieners

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 50 minutes

without soaking time for the lentils, a very quick and delicious recipe

Put a large pot of water and salt on a boil to cook the spaetzle later. Prepare a pressure cooker, add the lentils, peel the potatoes, and cut them into pieces, then add them as well. Add the bacon and stock cubes. Add enough water to cover the ingredients by about 3 cm. Close the pressure cooker tightly (!), place it on the stove, and bring to a boil on high. Leave the lentils on the stove until the steam knob is all the way up. Then turn off the stove and let them stand on the warm stovetop until the steam knob is all the way down. Then you can carefully release the steam. Stir the lentils well and season to taste with vegetable stock and vinegar (I often use cheap dark balsamic vinegar because it’s not as acidic as other vinegars). You could also add chopped Vienna sausages at this point so they warm up a bit. Meanwhile, mix the flour and eggs along with a little lukewarm water with a wooden spoon (a mixer will also work) and season with salt. Pour the dough into a spaetzle press and press it into the boiling water (which you set up at the beginning). Simmer briefly until the spaetzle float to the top, lift them out of the cooking water and refresh them with cold water. Drain in a sieve. Serve everything hot. Tip for the next day: If you have some lentils and spaetzle left over from the day before, you can put a hot pan in a little oil, fry 1-2 finely chopped onions in the hot pan and add the spaetzle a little later. Simply pour the remaining lentils on top and season to taste with a little vegetable stock and balsamic vinegar. The onions make it taste completely different than the day before.