Lentils With Sausage And Kale Food

BLACK LENTIL STEW WITH SAUSAGE AND KALE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a pot over medium heat. Saute onion, carrot, and celery until starting to soften, about 5 minutes. Add sausage; mix to coat. Stir in bay leaf and lentils. Pour in broth; season with salt and pepper. Increase heat and bring soup to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until lentils start to swell up, about 20 minutes.
• In the meantime, pull kale leaves away from the stem. Roll leaves up and chop into ribbons. Place in a colander and wash.
• Stir kale and tomato into the soup. Cook until kale and lentils are tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Taste and season as desired.
• Ladle soup into serving bowls and garnish with sour cream and cayenne pepper.

SAUSAGE, KALE, AND LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• In a soup pot or large Dutch oven, heat 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil. Add the sausage, breaking it into pieces, and cook until lightly brown. Add the onions, celery, carrots, potato, chile pepper, rosemary, garlic, cumin, salt, and pepper, and cook to soften, 8 to10 minutes.
• Wilt in the kale, and season the kale leaves with a little freshly grated nutmeg. Stir in the tomato paste for 30 seconds, then add white wine. Cook to reduce by 1/2 and stir in the lentils, stock, and water. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and simmer the soup until the lentils are tender, about 35 minutes. Serve immediately or cool, store, and reheat. Serve with chopped celery greens, to garnish.

SAUSAGE & KALE LENTIL STEW

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, carrots and onion over medium-high heat until sausage is no longer pink, breaking up sausage into crumbles, 8-10 minutes. Stir in garlic; cook 2 minutes longer. Drain., Place tomatoes and red peppers in a food processor; process until finely chopped. Add to sausage mixture; stir in lentils, broth and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 20 minutes, stirring occasionally., Stir in kale; cook until lentils and kale are tender, 10-15 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Freeze option: Freeze cooled stew in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally.

LENTIL SOUP WITH KALE AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO in a soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and cook, crumbling with a wooden spoon, until browned. Add the garlic, bay leaves, rosemary, carrots, onions and potatoes and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the vegetables are soft, 7 to 8 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the kale and nutmeg. Add the wine to deglaze the pot, stirring and scraping up any browned bits from the bottom. Stir in the chicken stock and 2 cups water and bring to boil (for thicker soup, use 2 cups less liquid).
• Stir in the lentils and cook at a low, bubbly simmer until the lentils are tender, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove the rosemary stems and bay leaves.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and top with a drizzle of EVOO and the shaved Pecorino.

RACHAEL RAY'S HUNGARIAN SAUSAGE AND LENTIL STOUP

Steps:

• In a medium sized pot, simmer lentils in chicken stock.
• In a second pot, sauté sausage in olive oil.
• Add garlic, onions and mushrooms to the sausage. Cook a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add carrots, lentils, potato, salt and pepper, bay leaf, paprika (or substitute mixture) and rosemary to sausage pot. Don't worry about the woody rosemary stems - the leaves will fall off as it cooks.
• Add tomatoes to sausage pot. Bring to a good rolling boil and boil for 15 minutes.
• Combine the two pots.
• Wilt the greens in and remove the rosemary stems. Let sit 5 minutes off the heat before serving.

PASTA WITH LENTILS AND KALE

Steps:

• Simmer lentils in water (2 cups) with 1/4 teaspoon salt in a 1- to 1 1/2-quart saucepan, uncovered, adding more water if necessary to keep lentils barely covered, until tender but not falling apart, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from heat and season with salt.
• While lentils simmer, heat 1/4 cup oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté onion with pepper and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, stirring, 1 minute. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until onions are soft and golden (stir more frequently toward end of cooking), about 20 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat to moderate, then cook, stirring frequently, until onion is golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes more.
• While onion cooks, cut out and discard stems and center ribs from kale. Cook kale in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling salted water , uncovered, stirring occasionally, until just tender, 5 to 8 minutes. Transfer kale with tongs to a colander to drain, pressing lightly. Keep pot of water at a boil, covered.
• Coarsely chop kale and add to onion along with lentils (including lentil-cooking liquid), then simmer, stirring, 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper.
• Add pasta to kale-cooking liquid and boil, uncovered, until al dente. Reserve about 1 cup pasta-cooking liquid, then drain pasta in a colander. Add pasta to lentil mixture along with about 1/3 cup of pasta-cooking liquid (or enough to keep pasta moist) and cook over high heat, tossing, 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with remaining 2 tablespoons oil.

SAUSAGE, LENTIL, AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or heavy pot,heat oil over medium-high. Add sausageand cook, breaking up meat witha wooden spoon, until golden brown,about 5 minutes. Add celery and onionand cook until softened, about 5 minutes.Add lentils, broth, and 1/2 cup waterand bring to a boil. Reduce to a rapidsimmer, partially cover, and cook untillentils and vegetables are tender,25 minutes.
• Add kale and season with salt.Return soup to a rapid simmer, cover,and cook until kale wilts, about5 minutes. Remove soup from heat,stir in vinegar, and season withsalt and pepper.

SAUSAGE, LENTIL AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil over medium heat.
• Add sausage and cook, breaking up meat with a wooden spoon, until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Add celery and onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add lentils, broth, and 1/2 cup water and bring to a boil.
• Reduce to a rapid simmer, partially cover, and cook until lentils and vegetables are tender, about 25 minutes.
• Add kale and season with salt.
• Return soup to a rapid simmer, cover, and cook until kale wilts, about 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat, stir in red-wine vinegar, and season with salt and pepper.

LEMONY LENTILS WITH KALE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and carrot in the hot oil until softened, about 4 minutes. Add garlic, thyme sprigs, kosher salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes; cook and stir to coat, 1 minute.
• Stir lentils, tomatoes and their juice, and chicken stock into onion mixture. Cover and simmer until lentils are tender, about 40 minutes. Add kale, lemon zest, and lemon juice; cook until kale is wilted, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.