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Sausage and lentil hotpot

1 of your 5 a day. Autumn comfort-food.

Preparation time:
10 minutes
Cooking time:
30 minutes
Serves:
 4

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 454g pack essential Waitrose pork sausages
  • 1 essential Waitrose medium onion, finally chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 essential Waitrose leek, sliced
  • 1 essential Waitrose large carrot, cubed
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 200g Waitrose wholesome lentils
  • 200g curly kale or cavolo nero, shredded

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the sausages and fry for 15 minutes until browned. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon. Add the onion, garlic, leek and carrot and cook for 5 minutes until softened.
  2. Add the cumin, bay leaves and lentils with 1-1.25 litres water. Bring to the boil then simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally until thick and soupy and the lentils are almost tender.
  3. Stir in the kale or shredded cavolo nero, return the sausages to the pan, cover and cook for a further 5 minutes until the cabbage is tender. Discard the bay leaves and season to taste. Serve in warmed bowls.

Cook's tips

Add 200g essential Waitrose frozen butternut squash with the kale. For added flavour replace the water with stock.

Drinks recommendation

This hearty hotpot suits a fairly robust yet well
balanced Italian red, such as this blend of Primitivo and Merlot grape varieties: Da Luca imitivo/Merlot Tarantino, Puglia, Italy

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Tko

Tko 13 November 2009 14:45

I used 300g of lentils and only 750ml of water. It took much longer to cook than specified on the card but it is very good.

CRAndersen

CRAndersen 05 November 2009 12:37

My family would fight over the carrot! I reckon one 4-oz carrot per person... Probably two onions and at least double the cabbage would make it less watery. They give a lovely background flavour to the liquor they are boiled in. And then it would count as two of your five a day :-)

Dan Jones

Dan Jones 04 November 2009 13:05

I cooked this the other night - it's nice enough, although rather watery. We found that reheating it the next day with a glass of red wine added and allowing the sauce to reduce a little did improve it.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 517.0kcal
Sugars 8.3g
Fat 26.4g
Saturated Fat 9.4g
Salt 1.5g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in November 2009