Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero:

1. Take Ingredients - main:
2. Take Organic rapeseed oil
3. Make ready 400 g fresh or frozen, cored & de-seeded, chopped, mixed peppers
4. Make ready 4 medium sized organic carrots – topped, tailed & diced (no need to peel them if they’re organic)
5. Get 1 medium to large onion – peeled & chopped
6. Get 1 tsp fennel seeds
7. Make ready 5 cloves garlic – peeled & roughly sliced
8. Take 3 sticks celery – roughly chopped
9. Prepare 300 g organic Jerusalem artichokes or potatoes (no need to peel them if they’re organic) – top, tailed where needed & diced
10. Make ready 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
11. Get 1 tsp smoked paprika
12. Prepare 3 tbsps cider vinegar (white wine vinegar, left over cider or white wine will work too)
13. Get 20 turns of the black pepper grinder
14. Get 1 tsp sea salt
15. Make ready 1 litre chicken stock
16. Prepare 200 g dried puy lentils
17. Take 4 bay leaves
18. Prepare 300 g whole button mushrooms
19. Make ready 300 g roughly chopped cabbage
20. Make ready Ingredients - topping:
21. Prepare 1 whole Cauliflower including leaves & stem – quartered
22. Make ready Cavolo nero

Steps to make Puy lentil stew with baked cauliflower and steamed cavolo nero:

1. Add around 2 tbsb of the rapeseed oil to a roasting pan and then place the pan in the oven. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Place the quartered cauliflower in the hot roasting pan (you could also add some halved sweet potatoes and large chunks of squash, which are great throughout the week as a side to or as part of lunch time salads). Drizzle around 1 tbsp of the rapeseed oil over the cauliflower (use more oil if you’re adding sweet potato &/or squash). Bake for 1 to 1 ½ hours
2. While the cauliflower is baking, heat around 5 tbsps of the rapeseed oil in a large, heavy, cast iron pan with a lid - put the lid to one side. Add the chopped peppers and fry gently for a few minutes, then add the diced carrots.
3. Fry them together on a medium to high heat (stirring as necessary) until they begin to go golden brown. Then add the diced carrots and fry for 10 minutes (stirring as necessary).
4. Turn down the heat down low, then add the fennel seeds and onions. Fry gently for about 10 minutes.
5. Add the sliced garlic, diced Jerusalem artichokes (or potatoes) and chopped celery. Fry gently for a further 5 minutes.
6. Add the smoked paprika, chilli flakes, salt and pepper. Fry gently for a few minutes. Then add the vinegar and deglaze the pan.
7. Add the chicken stock, lentils and bay leaves. Then stir.
8. Add the whole mushrooms. Do not stir. Put the lid on and turn the heat down to it's lowest setting and leave for about an hour. You may need to gently stir around the 40 minute mark, to ensure the contents do not stick to the bottom of the pan.
9. Place the chopped cabbage on top. Do not stir. Replace the lid and simmer for a further 15 minutes.
10. Stir & then the stew is ready to serve.
11. Serve with the baked cauliflower and some steamed cavolo nero on top.

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