Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lentil loaf. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lentil loaf is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lentil loaf is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Place lentils and broth in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. A perfect dinner loaf, but would also would make great open-face sandwiches for lunch. This recipe is easy and after you've cooked the lentils, everything else is stirred into the pot, and transferred to a loaf pan to bake.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lentil loaf using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil loaf:
- Take 200 g red lentils
- Get 500 ml water
- Prepare Olive oil
- Prepare 1 onion sliced
- Prepare 2 stick celery, chooped
- Get 1 pepper, diced
- Make ready 1 clove garlic, crashed
- Prepare 130 g mushrooms, chooped(optional)
- Take 170 g cheese,grated
- Prepare 200 g wholemeal breadcrums
- Take Chopped fresh coriander
- Make ready Salt and ground black pepper
Press the lentil mixture into the loaf pan and press it down firmly. The downfall of many lentil loaf recipes is the mush factor. Most of the elements that often go into a homemade lentil loaf (lentils, mushrooms, vegetables) are high in moisture, which can lead to a mushy texture. Another problem with a lentil loaf (or even veggie burgers) is that all the ingredients have already been cooked.
Steps to make Lentil loaf:
- Put the lentils in saucepan and add water and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and cook for 15-20min.
- Preheat the oven 180c. Prepare 1.2litre loaf tin.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the onion, celery,pepper,garlic and cook for 5min, add mushrooms and cook for next 5min
- Tip the vegetable into the lentil mixture, then stir in the cheese(leave some for later to put on top), breadcrumbs,coriander.Mix well and season.
- Spoon the mixture into the prep loaf tin and baked for 50min after add the rest of the cheese and bake for next 5-10min. Cool in the tin for 10min before cutting! You can eat warm or cold! Enjoy!
Lentil loaf is a very economical, easy, and healthy vegan recipe for families on a budget since it's made from just a few inexpensive ingredients. Made as written with the addition of half an onion and a few cloves of garlic, which I sautéed with the mushrooms. Also added some cumin and chili crisp (my go to secret spicy umami injection for many dishes). Topped it with Trader Joe's Black Summer Truffle Ketchup. I'll be making it again for sure.
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