Lentil sauce to go with pasta

[TotemPole]

Does anyone have any tried and tested recipes please?

We have red lentils, tinned tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, celery.

Thanks.

No recipe but the key is to add lots more flavouring than you think you'll need - red wine, lots of chopped herbs and probably some chilli flakes too, to avoid it being bland.

This is a family favourite: Lentil Bolagnese. Tasty and easy to make.

Thanks for the replies.

No flakes but I guess fresh chillies would work as well.

The bolognese sounds nice. I don't have molasses. What could work instead? I have golden syrup, sugar, white wine vinegar, mustard.

I'm trying to build up a few store cupboard recipes.

Sugar would work just as well in the bolagnese- white or brown.

We frequently use the following recipe:

Ingredients
1 onion chopped
2 cloves of garlic crushed and chopped
1- 1 1/2 tins of tomatoes
8 oz lentils
4 oz mushrooms sliced/diced whatever
1 red pepper diced
1/4 pint of stock (I often just mix a bit of marmite with boiling water)
Basil, oregano etc

Fry onions in olive oil until soft. Add garlic for a minute or so. Add the peppers and mushrooms and cook for another minute. Add the lentils and herbs and stir so that they get a good coating of oil. Add the tomatoes and stock. Bring to boil and simmer for 25 minutes or so until the lentils are tender but not like mashed potato.

Add spaghetti and cheese and tabasco if you like.

Get the lentils ready to sling in.

Chop up the garlic, onions, celery and carrot as fine as you can. Sweat them in whatever oil you like. Add loads of herbs, spices, flavourings (eg Worcester sauce, chilli, maggi sauce anything really). Chuck in tomatoes, some more liquid (stock?) and melt it all down. Cheese on top. It'll be fne.

One tablespoon of vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar would work well in this. If you have fresh chillies, don't go mad with them but add a couple.

Thank you for your suggestions. Sorry I thought I'd replied last week.