Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce
Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, italian sausages in lentil sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

My mother used English sausages mostly, and those flat, sludgy lentils (Puy lentils weren't so easily available then) but this is at its best made with highly flavoured Italian sausages (I love the ones tagged 'Genovese', deep with garlic and basil) and either French Puy lentils or the similar Italian ones from Umbria. This incidentally, is what Italians serve traditionally on New Year's Day. Through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, this recipe has always stuck around and has even become a New Years Eve tradition symbolic for good.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have italian sausages in lentil sauce using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce:
  1. Get 1 can lentils or 1 cup dried lentils, soaked and boiled
  2. Prepare 400 gms fresh italian sauages, casing removed and broken into bite size pieces
  3. Make ready 1 large onion diced
  4. Get 1 stalk celery chopped - optional
  5. Get 3 garlic cloves chopped
  6. Take 1/2 can chopped tomatoes or 3 medium size tomatoes chopped
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp red chilli powder or 2-3 italian red chillies
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
  9. Get 1/2 cup red wine (optional)
  10. Get to taste Salt and Pepper
  11. Make ready 1 bay leaf- optional, parsley to garnish

This recipe is a perfect winter comfort food. This recipe is a perfect winter comfort food. The level of spice in the dish can be adjusted depending on the Italian sausage you use. Feast your eyes on the finest italian sausages with braised lentils!

Instructions to make Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce:
  1. On medium heat, place a deep bottom pan, when hot, add oil, sausages, cook until sausages are browned, add onions, celery and garlic and cook another 5 minutes, add red wine and cook until the alcohol evaporates about 2-3 minutes.
  2. Now add tomatoes, continue cooking for another 5 minutes, add lentils, bayleaf, bring to a boil cover and cook for 10 minutes on low heat, check for seasoning, turn heat off, and let it rest for 10 minutes.
  3. Serve with pasta of your choice or with potato dumplings or just plain sour dough bread, enjoy!!!

It's straightforward and fun to make this great dish. Simply follow the instructions below and get the perfect result. Heat the oil in a lidded frying pan. Set them aside on a plate. Using a slotted spoon, remove sausage and stir into lentils.

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