This bolognese is one of my mid-week staples. It’s perfect for lunch the next day with a slice or two of good sourdough bread. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
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-1 brown onion, finely diced
-2 cloves of garlic, minced
-2 carrots, diced
-a couple of ribs of celery, diced
-oil to sauté the vegetables in
-1x 810g (28oz) tin of diced tomatoes
-1 cup water
-1-2 cups of cooked lentils (I like to use green, but brown work well. You can use tinned or fresh), depending on how thick you like it
-1 tsp rice malt syrup or maple syrup
-salt + pepper
-optional stock cube – I occasionally add a beef ‘style’ stock cube which makes it much richer in flavour
-dried herbs (e.g oregano, bay leaves, parsley)
– a small handful of walnuts (mine was 40g or 1.5oz) Method:1. Sauté the onion, garlic, carrot and celery in a little oil in a hot frying pan (if you don’t like to use oil, you can omit it).
2. Add the tomatoes, water, lentils, rice malt syrup or maple syrup, seasoning, stock cube (if you’re using it) and dried herbs. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes or so. (Cook the pasta in the meantime!)
3. When the bolognese is finished cooking, stir through the walnuts (you don’t want to heat these as the omega-3 fatty acids are very unstable at high temperatures).
4. Serve with hot pasta and top with the cashew parmesan and fresh herbs.
-2 cloves of garlic, minced
-2 carrots, diced
-a couple of ribs of celery, diced
-oil to sauté the vegetables in
-1x 810g (28oz) tin of diced tomatoes
-1 cup water
-1-2 cups of cooked lentils (I like to use green, but brown work well. You can use tinned or fresh), depending on how thick you like it
-1 tsp rice malt syrup or maple syrup
-salt + pepper
-optional stock cube – I occasionally add a beef ‘style’ stock cube which makes it much richer in flavour
-dried herbs (e.g oregano, bay leaves, parsley)
– a small handful of walnuts (mine was 40g or 1.5oz) Method:1. Sauté the onion, garlic, carrot and celery in a little oil in a hot frying pan (if you don’t like to use oil, you can omit it).
2. Add the tomatoes, water, lentils, rice malt syrup or maple syrup, seasoning, stock cube (if you’re using it) and dried herbs. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes or so. (Cook the pasta in the meantime!)
3. When the bolognese is finished cooking, stir through the walnuts (you don’t want to heat these as the omega-3 fatty acids are very unstable at high temperatures).
4. Serve with hot pasta and top with the cashew parmesan and fresh herbs.
Cashew Parmesan
Ingredients:
-1/2 cup raw cashew nuts
-2 tsp nutritional yeast
-a pinch of salt
Blitz the above in a high-speed blender until crumbly.
Delicious Recipe courtesy of:
Lucy Taylor
Lucy’s food journal
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