prep
10 minutes
cook
2:30 hours
difficulty
Easy
preparation
10
minutes
cooking
2:30
hours
difficulty
Easy
level
Ingredients
- 500 g brown lentils
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 tsp finely diced ginger
- 3 large tomatoes, diced
- fresh or dried thyme
- 3 bay leaves
Soaking time 4 hours
Instructions
Wash the lentils in a plastic or pyrex bowl, cover with water and soak for 4–5 hours (preferably in the fridge).
Using a pressure cooker, fry onions until soft, add garlic and ginger and stir for a minute or two.
Add diced tomatoes, thyme and bay leaves, cover and simmer until tomatoes are cooked. Add lentils and water, cover and allow to cook on high until the pressure cooker starts to whistle.
Lower the flame and allow to simmer for approximately 2 hours, checking the level of water. Add salt to taste. You can of course use a conventional saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. In that case, you should simmer the lentils in the rougaille for about 1 hour all up.
Cook's Notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.
