Let's cook any lentil dish in a slow cooker

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Do you like lentils? If so, 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 legume is its high protein content. You can even say that protein is contained in lentils in huge quantities - 60% out of 100! Lentils are also rich in iron, manganese, titanium, nickel, boron, selenium, chromium, zinc, molybdenum, aluminum, cob alt, copper, silicon, fluorine. But that's not all! This legume can give our body phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, calcium, potassium. You already want to go to the kitchen and start cooking something delicious, but you do not know how 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!

Soup in a slow cooker

I propose to start with a fragrant, satisfying, nutritious and tasty soup! This lentil dish in a slow cooker is prepared simply and it does not take much time from you. Prepare the required grocery list:

• 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;
• s alt, pepper to taste;
• sunflower oil.

We start cooking 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 selected the “Baking” program, pour oil into the multicooker and send the onion to fry. After 4-5 minutes, put pepper and carrots in a bowl with onions. Mix and add meat. Season the products with s alt 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 slow cooker for 60 minutes. When the timer goes off, throw finely chopped garlic into the finished soup, add s alt if necessary and leave this yummy to simmer for a quarter of an hour on the “Heating” program.

Tender and he althy porridge

After the soup, it would be nice to cook porridge, don't you think?! This lentil dish with a photo sample is easy to prepare for you. First, fry a couple of chopped onions in vegetable oil. Then mix 2-3 grated carrots with the onion. After frying the vegetables until cooked, put 200 grams of lentils into the bowl of the multicooker pan and fill it with water. Add s alt to taste and leave the lentil dishcook in a slow cooker for 30-40 minutes by setting the “Pilaf” program.

Colorful lentil vinaigrette in multicooker

Don't be surprised, but we will really cook the vinaigrette with lentils! And, as you can see, multicookers have already become so firmly established in our lives that it has become possible to cook even a vinaigrette in this modern saucepan! For this dish of lentils in a slow cooker, we need to pour 1 cup of lentils into a multicooker pan and pour it with 2 cups of water. Place a steamer on top. We will put peeled and chopped potatoes (3 pieces), carrots (2 pieces) and beets (2 pieces) in it. We start the device to work for an hour in the "Porridge" mode. It remains to put the finished and cooled products in a salad bowl and mix them with chopped onion, chopped pickles (4 pieces) and sauerkraut (to taste). Season the dish with sunflower oil, ground black pepper and s alt. Let the vinaigrette rest in the fridge and serve. Bon appetit!