lentil recipes please

[LazySusan11]

I don't much enjoy cooking and I get really bored trying to think up new non processed healthy food ideas.

I did a lentil and sausage stew which was lovely just wondered if anyone had any other lentil recipes that don't take forever to prep.

Thank you

Gently fry a chopped onion, a couple of chipped carrots, a couple of chopped sticks of celery, some garlic and some pancetta until soft. Add cooked lentils. Add good olive oil, sea salt, pepper and chopped flat leaf parsley.

Lentil and tomato curry. Google Jamie Oliver's recipe for sainsburys. That's what I use.

Loosely layer sliced potato, sliced onions, red lentils and optional - tomatoes, bacon, cheese - in a casserole dish. Completely cover in stock and cook in oven at 200o for about an hour. Delicious lentil hotspot. Invented by my mum for veggie dad in about 1967. Perennial favourite of all children and grandchildren since. Even those that live in the south of France.

Chop and soften an onion, add garlic, ginger, and cumin, ground coriander and turmeric then chuck in lentils and enough water to cover. Bring to boil then simmer until the lentils are cooked, add a squeeze of lemon and you have a quick dhal.
I love lentils!

Lentil veggie curry -
Chop and fry an onion with cumin seeds, ginger, garlic and chilli - about a teaspoon of each.
Add chopped veg - I usually use a tin of sweet corn, some carrots, a handful of peas, sweet potato, ordinary potato and a couple of tins of toms. Stir in a crumbled stock cube and a tablespoon of curry powder and a drained tin of red lentils. Simmer until the veg are soft and sauce has thickened, about 20 mins.

Sorry, in that last recipe, I used tinned green lentils, not red. Dirt cheap. Works well with chick peas too.

Lentils with chorizo: fry in a small amount of oil chopped onion, garlic and sliced carrot.Add cooking chorizo sliced into rounds. Add a chopped ripe tomato and chopped green pepper. Stir in spanish paprika and cumin if you like it and bay leaf. Add lentils, a stock cube and water to cover. When boiling lower heat to a simmer. Halfway through add a chopped potato.
I make this in a pressure cooker

Lentils with spinach and rice: as above but you don't add potato or green pepper instead about ten minutes before lentils are cooked you add chopped spinach and a few minutes later cooked rice.I slightly undercook the rice so that it finishes cooking with the lentils.

They taste better if cooked ahead as flavours develop.

In the lentils, spinach and rice recipe above I usually add cubed bacon instead of chorizo

Simmilar to BikeRunSki I do a tinned green lentil and veggie curry... but this is really easy with jarred sauce.

1 onion, diced
2 green or red peppers, diced (or any colour really but the same colour looks nicer, and red or green looks the best otherwise its all orange/yellow)
1 cauliflower, broken into florets
1 tin green lentils, drained and rinsed
2 jars of curry sauce of your choice (I like pataks, or sharwoods, or tesco finest)

Fry the onions until they are really caramalised and starting to brown
Add the peppers and fry off for a few more mins
Add the jars of curry sauce, cauliflower and lentils
Cover and have on a gentle simmer for 10 mins and then 5 to 10 uncovered to thicken up

Serve with rice, naan and fresh coriander (and fresh ginger matchsticks if you have ginger in)

omnomnom.hannahnicklin.com/2012/10/07/sweet-potato-and-spinach-dhal/
That's a favourite in this house - makes a bucketload too

I recommend Jack Monroe's cookbook 'a girl called jack' - lots of lentil recipes in there. Overall it's a book of recipes that are cheap, easy and healthy, a win on many counts!

Rose Elliot has the market totally cornered for lentil and bean recipes.

Personally I find Jack Moneoe's recipes more hype than substance.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give me your recipes, I shall be sampling them all!