Do you like lentils? If yes, then you probably appreciate it not only for its pleasant and delicate taste, but also for the mass of useful substances with which it enriches the body. One of the main distinguishing features of this bean crop is its high protein content. You can even say that in lentils protein is contained in huge quantities - 60% out of 100! Lentils are also rich in iron, manganese, titanium, nickel, boron, selenium, chromium, zinc, molybdenum, aluminum, cobalt, copper, silicon, fluorine. But that's not all! This bean culture can give our body phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, calcium, potassium. You already wanted to go to the kitchen and start cooking something delicious, but you do not know what to cook a dish of lentils in a slow cooker? No problems! I offer you several options for using lentils, and you just have to choose your favorite!
Slow cooker soup
I suggest starting with a fragrant, nourishing, nutritious and tasty soup! This dish from lentils in a slow cooker is simple to prepare and it doesn’t take you much time. Prepare the necessary list of products:
- lentils - 1 cup;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- potatoes - 2-3 pieces;
- onions - 1 piece;
- chicken fillet - 300 grams;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- bell pepper - 1 piece;
- salt, pepper to taste;
- sunflower oil.
We start preparing the soup with the most standard preparations: we clean the vegetables, rub the carrots, chop the onion, chop the pepper and potatoes. We cut the meat into pieces. Having chosen the “Baking” program, fill the multicooker with oil and send the onions to be fried. After 4-5 minutes, put pepper and carrots in a bowl with onions. Mix and lay the meat. Season the products with salt and pepper and fry for 6-7 minutes. After that, you can put the remaining ingredients in the multicooker bowl: potatoes and lentils. We reset the universal pan to the "Stew" mode and leave the lentil dish in the multicooker for 60 minutes. When the timer works, put finely chopped garlic in the prepared soup, add salt if necessary and leave this yummy to simmer for a quarter of an hour on the “Preheat” program.
Gentle and healthy porridge
After the soup, it would be nice to cook porridge, what do you think ?! This dish from lentils with a photo sample to prepare you will not be difficult. To start, fry a couple of chopped onions in vegetable oil. Then mix with the onion 2-3 grated carrots. After frying vegetables until cooked, put 200 grams of lentils in a bowl of a multi-cooking pot and fill it with water. Add salt to taste and leave the lentil dish in the slow cooker to cook for 30-40 minutes by setting the Pilaf program.
Colorful vinaigrette with lentils in a slow cooker
Do not be surprised, but we will really cook vinaigrette with lentils! And, as you see, crock-pots have already entered our lives so firmly that it became possible to cook even vinaigrette in this modern pan! For this dish from lentils in a slow cooker we need to pour 1 cup of lentils into a multicooker pan and pour 2 cups of water in it. Install a double boiler on top. In it we put peeled and chopped potatoes (3 pieces), carrots (2 pieces) and beets (2 pieces). We start the device to work for an hour with the "Porridge" mode. Finished and cooled products are left to put in a salad bowl and mix them with chopped onion, chopped pickles (4 pieces) and sauerkraut (to taste). We season the dish
with sunflower oil, black ground pepper and salt. We give vinaigrette to brew in the refrigerator and serve. Enjoy your meal!