If you want variety in side dishes, try cooking lentils. It contains many useful vitamins and minerals for the body. Lentils are cooked quite quickly and easily. In addition, lentils are combined with any kind of meat and all vegetables. Let's look at a few dishes cooked in a slow cooker.
Lentils with meat in the Redmond slow cooker
Such a dish will please not only relatives, but can become the main decoration of the festive table. We will need:
- Beef Meat - 400 g.
- Kupaty - 4 pieces.
- Bacon - 300 g
- Lentils - 600 g.
- Onions and carrots - 2 medium pieces each.
- Garlic - 4 cloves.
- Salt, ground black pepper, seasonings, bay leaf - to your own taste.
- Water - 1.5 liters.
The algorithm for cooking lentils with meat in a slow cooker is as follows:
- Rinse the lentils well, do it several times.
- Cut onions, carrots, beef and bacon into large cubes.
- Chop the garlic finely with a knife.
- Put chopped foods, kupatas, lentils in a multicooker bowl, salt, pepper, add your favorite spices, bay leaf and pour 700 ml of water.
- Close the lid as well as the steam vent valve. Turn on the function "Cooking" and set the time to "Small".
- As the program ends, press "Cancel", release steam from the device.
- Put the kupatas from the multicooker so that they do not digest, add the remaining water, repeat the "Cooking" mode (time "Small").
- After the program is over, let off steam, open the lid, add kupata, garlic to the bowl, and mix.
Lentils with pork and cabbage
To cook lentils with meat in a slow cooker you will need this set of products:
- Pork - 1 kg.
- White cabbage - 300 g.
- Lentils - 2 cups.
- Onions and carrots - 3 each.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Water - 3 cups.
- Salt, pepper, spices - to your taste.
Recipe for cooking lentils with meat in a slow cooker:
- Rinse the lentils several times.
- Cut the pork into large pieces and lower it into the bowl of the multicooker with vegetable oil. Set the option "Baking". Salt, pepper.
- Dice the onion, grate the carrots, chop the cabbage and send to the meat. Mix all the ingredients well.
- Now add lentils to the mass and fill everything with water. If necessary, add more salt, spices and pepper.
- Put the device in the "Pilaf" or "Buckwheat" mode, bury it with a lid and cook until the program ends. After about an hour, the lentils with meat in the slow cooker will be ready.
Mushroom recipe
You will need the following ingredients:
- Lentils - 200 g.
- Pork - 300 g.
- Champignon mushrooms - 200 g.
- Onions - 1 head.
- Salt, pepper, herbs - to your taste.
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
- Water - 400 ml.
How to cook lentils with meat in a slow cooker and mushrooms? Very simple, you just need to follow these steps:
- Chop meat, mushrooms and onions in random order.
- Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, place the chopped foods in it. Turn on the “Baking” option and wait until all the liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated. It takes about half an hour.
- Now we send lentils to meat and mushrooms, fill everything with water, salt, pepper, add greens to taste, mix.
- We transfer the device to the "Buckwheat" mode, close the lid and wait for the end of the program.
Red lentils with meat in a slow cooker
Prepare this set of products:
- Chicken fillet - 300 g.
- Red lentils - 1 cup.
- Ketchup and sour cream - 3 tablespoons each.
- Carrots and onions - 1 each.
- Salt, spices, pepper - to your taste.
- Water or vegetable broth - 2 glasses.
Preparing lentils with meat in a slow cooker as follows:
- Rinse the lentils.
- Dice the meat.
- Grate the carrots, cut the onion in half rings.
- All products lay in the bowl of the multicooker.
- In water, mix sour cream with ketchup, pour the contents of the bowl with this sauce.
- Then we add salt, pepper, add favorite spices as desired, mix, close the lid and set the "Stewing" mode for half an hour.
Lentil soup
This type of bean makes an incredibly delicious soup. To prepare it, we need:
- Red Lentils - 150 g.
- Carrots, onions, tomato - 1 each.
- Water - 1 l.
- Chicken meat - 200 g.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon.
- Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Chopped fresh mint - 1 tablespoon.
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons.
- Caraway seeds - 1 teaspoon.
- Salt, ground pepper - to your taste.
We carry out the following steps for cooking lentil soup with meat in a slow cooker:
- Rinse the lentils several times.
- Cut onion, tomato and carrot into small cubes.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, add garlic, carrots, onions, caraway seeds and fry in the "Frying" mode for about two minutes.
- Next, lay the chopped meat and fry for about five minutes.
- Now we send the tomato there, mix, simmer another five minutes.
- After that pour the lentils, add the tomato paste, salt, pepper, pour in the water and pour the chopped mint.
- Close the lid, transfer the device to the "Extinguishing" option and after 30 minutes the soup is ready.
- After the beep, do not open the lid, let the dish brew for another 10 minutes. Serve the finished dish with sour cream.
Mistresses note
To make the lentil dish with meat in the slow cooker perfect, follow these simple tips:
- Before you start cooking, be sure to rinse the product several times in running water.
- Lentils do not require pre-soaking. This will significantly save your time.
- Any meat (pork, beef, lamb, horse meat) goes well with these legumes.
- If you want to cook lentils with mushrooms, it is better to take mushrooms. These mushrooms do not need to be boiled beforehand.
- Lentils cook quickly, about 15 minutes.
Try to cook the above dishes and do not be afraid to come up with your own original recipes.