Recipe: Appetizing Vegetarian Lentil Stew

Vegetarian Lentil Stew.

You can have Vegetarian Lentil Stew using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vegetarian Lentil Stew

1. You need 250 g of lentils, soaked overnight.
2. You need 1 of onion.
3. You need 2 cloves of garlic.
4. Prepare 2 of medium potatoes.
5. It's 1 of large carrot.
6. You need 1/2 stalk of celery.
7. You need 1 Tbsp of olive oil.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt, plus more to taste.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of red wine.
10. It's 1-2 of tomatoes, or 2 Tbsp tomato paste.
11. It's 1 Tbsp of dry marjoram (you can also sub. other herbs).
12. Prepare 1 tsp of smoked paprika powder (or regular paprika).
13. You need of Water, enough cover lentils.

Vegetarian Lentil Stew instructions

1. Prep the lentils by soaking overnight. It's not necessary, but right before cooking, I also like to put the lentils in a pot of cold water, bring it to boil and then drain after 1-2 minutes. This will get rid of those ugly foamy bubbles that come up in the soup when you cook lentils..
2. Prep your veggies: Finely chop the onion and garlic. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Cut carrots into cubes. Slice or cube the celery..
3. Heat olive oil on medium in a large pot. Saute the onions and garlic until very soft, 5-10 minutes..
4. Add the carrots and saute a couple minutes. Mix in the drained lentils, celery, bay leaf and 1/2 tsp salt..
5. Add the red wine and tomato (or tomato paste). Bring it to a boil and cook for a couple minutes..
6. Finally add the potatoes, marjoram, paprika and just enough water to cover everything..
7. Bring the stew to a boil, turn to medium-low and cover with lid. Let it cook for 30 minutes, or until lentils are soft. At the end, add more salt to taste and a little more water if it's too thick for you..
8. Serve on its own....
9. Or my favorite, with Spätzle noodles!.

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