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Soups / Stews: Colorful Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew

5 from 6 votes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 6 people
Calories 50 kcal

Ingredients
 

For the soup:

  • 400 g Meat loaf coarse
  • 2 Discs Breakfast bacon
  • 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
  • 1 Red Onion
  • 1 pole Leek
  • 3 Orange sweet potatoes, approx. 500 g
  • 3 middle Carrots
  • 0,5 Red peppers
  • 10 Dried apricots
  • 200 g Pardina lentils dried without soaking time
  • 70 g Tomato paste
  • 2 l Vegetable broth hot
  • 1 small can Peeled and roughly chopped tomatoes
  • 0,5 tsp Harissa paste
  • 3 tsp Mild mango chutney
  • 1 tsp Balsamic vinegar with orange
  • 1 tbsp Ajvar mild

For seasoning:

  • 1 tbsp Mild curry powder
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 1 tsp Brown sugar
  • 0,5 tsp Cubeb pepper from the mill
  • Salt

Herbs:

  • 2 tbsp Frozen parsley

To refine:

  • 6 tsp Crème fraîche with herbs

Instructions
 

  • Cut the meat loaf and the breakfast bacon into cubes. Peel the onion, clean the leek and rinse thoroughly. Peel and rinse the sweet potatoes and carrots, clean and rinse the peppers. Dice the onion, carrots, sweet potatoes and peppers and cut the leek into rings. Heat the oil in a large saucepan.
  • Fry the meat loaf and the bacon in the hot oil until both take on a little color. Then add the onion and leek and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Add sweet potatoes, carrots and peppers, fry briefly, then add tomato paste and curry powder to the saucepan and roast for 2-3 minutes. Deglaze with the hot vegetable stock and peeled tomatoes.
  • Stir in harissa paste, mango chutney, balsamic vinegar and ajvar, and bring everything to a boil. Cut the dried apricots into small pieces. As soon as the water boils, add to the saucepan with the lentils. Add bay leaves, season the stew with cubeb pepper and sugar.
  • Let the stew simmer over a medium heat for about 45-50 minutes, stirring again and again. Finally, season again to taste and possibly add a little salt. Stir in the parsley and heat briefly. Take the bay leaves out of the pot. For serving, arrange the stew in deep plates and garnish with a dollop of crème fraîche. Bon appetit and have fun cooking at home :-)!

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 50kcalCarbohydrates: 1.4gProtein: 0.4gFat: 4.8g
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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