On this recipe the place each dried lentils and uncooked sausages are baked collectively in the identical pan, the lentils take in the sausage juices as they prepare dinner, making the common-or-garden lentils tastier than you ever dreamed doable. Sausage and lentils for dinner? YES. Convey it on!

One-pan baked sausage and lentils

This may sound like an uncommon one-pan dinner recipe (what do you imply you by no means thought to prepare dinner lentils within the oven with sausages on high??!!), however is exceptionally scrumptious and fabulously fingers off.

It begins by sautéing aromatics – eschalots/shallots/French onion (🤯*), garlic and cumin seeds – on the range proper within the roasting pan. Dried lentils and inventory are added, uncooked sausages positioned on high, you then merely pop it within the oven to do its factor.

No sausage range splatter to take care of. No bland lentils – the flavour enhance it will get from the sausages is every thing! And the lentils are good and juicy so that they act because the sauce for the sausages!

* Meals language world standardisation. Please! Somebody make it occur!

Full transparency

Just about each one-pan-one-pot-dump-and-bake recipe has some compromise with the end result, irrespective of how exhausting the enthusiastic recipe author tries to promote a recipe to you. Stews are an ideal instance. It doesn’t matter what somebody tells you, should you simply dump every thing in a gradual cooker or on the spot pot, the tip outcome won’t ever be nearly as good as searing the meat cubes then simmering low-and gradual utilizing the oven or range.

For this one pan sausage & lentils? Right here is the place it differs from range searing sausages and making a separate pot of lentil ragout:

• The underside of the sausages don’t get browned. However there’s sufficient browning on the floor that you just gained’t really feel robbed. This coming from a food-browning fiend! Color = flavour!

• The lentils don’t prepare dinner as evenly because the conventional methodology on the range. The very high layer of uncovered lentils has a delicate crunch (the darker brown lentils within the photograph under), and every thing beneath is ideal (the olive inexperienced ones under).

  Sarcastically, I really like the firmer lentils, they’re like nuts. I need to scoop all of them off and put it in my bowl! (Oh wait, I DID. 😎)

What you want

Right here’s all it’s worthwhile to make this one-pan baked sausage and lentils. The lentils get an enormous (free!) flavour enhance from the sausage juices that drip into the lentils as they prepare dinner. (PS Don’t skip the cumin seeds).

Whereas I really feel this works greatest with puy lentils, I actually simply made this with inexperienced lentils/brown lentils and it labored nice!

• Sausages (I take advantage of pork) – Any sausages you need, although simply keep in mind measurement for serving parts. I’ve used 2 sausages per serving so opted for medium measurement ones round 85g/3oz every. Additionally, should you use gigantic ones, chances are you’ll wrestle to suit them in! You desire a little bit of house across the sausages to permit for browning – if they’re too comfortable, they’ll simply stew. No one desires pale, colourless sausages!!

• Puy lentils (French Lentils) – Identified by a number of names together with Puy Lentils, French Lentils, French Inexperienced Lentils or Black Lentils, these differ from different lentil varieties as a result of they maintain their form higher, have a deeper, nuttier flavour and beautiful chew. See under for an in depth up photograph.

  Additionally works with inexperienced lentils / brown lentils. They’re barely softer – it’s how they’re – however they prepare dinner simply as properly within the oven as puy lentils!

  Canned lentils gained’t work for the recipe as written as a result of the entire level right here is that dried lentils are cooked in flavoured broth so that they take in the flavour. That is what makes this dish so scrumptious!

• Cumin seeds – Promise me you gained’t skip this! Makes the lentils sing.

• Eschalot – Fragrant flavour base for the dish. Also referred to as French onions and referred to as “shallots” within the US. They’re like child onions, however with purple-skinned flesh. To not be confused with what some folks in Australia name “shallots”, ie. the lengthy inexperienced onions. Substitute with bizarre brown onion.

• Garlic – The opposite important flavour base for this dish.

• Rooster inventory/broth – The braising liquid. Makes this dish a lot tastier than simply utilizing water.

Methods to make one-pan baked sausage and lentils

The recipe begins by sautéing aromatics on the range, proper within the roasting pan. It doesn’t matter in case your burner is way smaller than the roasting pan – mine is! Simply hold the eschallots, garlic and so on in the course of the pan over the warmth.

1. Sauté aromatics – Prepare dinner the eschallots and garlic in a metallic roasting pan on the range till the eschallots are softened, about 3 minutes. Then add the cumin seeds and sauté for a minute till they’re good and toasty.

2. Add the dried lentils straight into the roasting pan.

3. Add every thing else – Then add the hen inventory, uncooked chopped carrots, salt and pepper. Stir and convey the liquid to a simmer.

4. Sausages – Flip the warmth off and gently place the uncooked sausages on the floor, don’t push them in. They are going to be partially submerged and that’s okay.

5. Paper – Cowl the floor with a sheet of paper with slits in it (see under). It can stick naturally to the uncovered liquid.

6. Bake – Switch to a 200°C/400°F (180°C fan) oven. Bake for 25 minutes lined then 20 minutes uncovered till the sausages are browned. Dinner, performed in a single pan. No sausage stove-splatter to take care of – how good is that???!!

What’s with the paper cowl?? This methodology of utilizing a paper “lid” is a cooking method utilized in numerous cuisines (reminiscent of Persian Lamb Shanks). In classical French cooking, it’s referred to as a cartouche. It permits meals to steam evenly and shortly, whereas permitting some steam to flee so that you don’t have the issue of uneven condensation such as you get with a cracked lid. It’s the little trick on this recipe that enables the lentils to prepare dinner evenly within the oven, dropped at us courtesy of Chef JB.

Serving this

As I discussed earlier, the lentils are good and saucy, not dried out and crumbly. So it acts because the sauce for the sausage. Form of like a triple-duty facet dish, actually. It’s the starch (fills out the meal), greens (carrots + eschalots) and the “sauce” for the sausages.

Who ever knew lentils held such magic powers?

And who ever knew lentils could possibly be so extremely scrumptious? As a result of who ever thought to prepare dinner lentils with sausages*??

Actually hope you do this one. Go on. I do know you’ve received a packet of lentils someplace at the hours of darkness depths of your pantry!! – Nagi x

* It was not I who considered this. It was RecipeTin’s very personal lentil-loving Frenchman, Chef JB. Thanks JB!

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One-pan baked sausage & lentils

Creator: Nagi

Prep: 10 minutes

Prepare dinner: 50 minutes

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Western

Servings4

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Recipe video above. On this recipe the place each lentils and sausages are baked collectively in the identical pan, the lentils take in the sausage juices as they prepare dinner, making the common-or-garden lentils tastier than you ever dreamed doable! The recipe begins on the range sautéing aromatics proper within the roasting pan. Any metallic pan will work, and it would not matter in case your range burner is not massive sufficient for the roasting pan- mine definitely is not.Do not skip the cumin seeds. It provides this a particular contact!

Components

CupsMetric

• ▢ 3 tbsp additional virgin olive oil
• ▢ 4 eschallots/shallots , peeled, halved, finely sliced (sub 1 massive onion, Word 1)
• ▢ 3 garlic cloves , finely minced
• ▢ 1 tbsp cumin seeds (don’t skip this!)
• ▢ 1 1/2 cups puy lentils / French lentils (sub inexperienced/brown lentils, Word 3)
• ▢ 4 small carrots , peeled, quartered, diced into 8mm/ 1/3″ cubes
• ▢ 1 tsp cooking salt (kosher salt)
• ▢ 3/4 tsp black pepper
• ▢ 3 cups hen broth/inventory , low sodium
• ▢ 8 x 85g/3oz pork sausages (Word 3)

Directions

• Pre-heat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan).

• Cooking vessel – Use a metallic roasting pan ~23 x 33 cm / 9 x 13″. Fold a sheet of baking/parchment paper (massive sufficient to cowl pan) in half and reduce 4 x ~10cm/4″ slits (steam vents! Word 4). Else, use foil – simply tear steam vents.

• Sauté aromatics – Put the pan instantly on the range (actually, it is okay!) and warmth the olive oil over medium excessive warmth. Add eschallots and garlic, sauté for 3 minutes till delicate. Add cumin seeds and stir for 1 minute.

• Lentils & inventory – Add dried lentils, carrot, salt, pepper and inventory. Convey to a simmer.

• Sausages & paper – Gently place the sausages on high (do not press in). Cowl with the paper, gently urgent so it “sticks” to the inventory.

• Bake for 25 minutes on the center shelf. Take away paper and bake for 20 extra minutes to brown the sausages.

• Relaxation 5 min – Take away from the oven. Relaxation for five minutes.

• Serve the sausages with lentils. The flavour-loaded lentils are saucy so that they act because the sauce for the sausages! Additionally pictured in publish – child spinach with On a regular basis Dressing.

Recipe Notes:

1. Eschallots are the small onions often known as French onions and shallots. (It may be very complicated as a result of right here in Australia, inexperienced onions – the lengthy inexperienced stems – are generally offered labelled as shallots!). Substitute with 1 massive regular brown onion
2. Puy lentils, often known as French Lentils, French Inexperienced Lentils or Black Lentils. Small, greenish-black lentils offered dried at bigger supermarkets in Australia. Higher, firmer texture and (in my view) greatest flavour in comparison with different lentils.
Brown lentils / inexperienced lentils additionally work nice. They’re just a little softer than puy lentils.
Canned – Recipe as written gained’t work with canned as the entire level right here is that dried lentils are cooked in flavour!
3. Sausages – Recipe assumes 2 sausages per serving, I prefer to get small(ish) ones weighing round 85g / 3oz every. However you may actually prepare dinner as many as you need / can.
4. Paper cowl – No have to be actual right here! Simply want a sheet of paper massive sufficient to cowl floor with slits to permit steam to flee. It’s a method utilized in cooking (like Persian lamb shanks) that enables some steam to flee however prevents the floor from drying out an excessive amount of (on this case, the lentils). You would additionally cowl with foil and tear slits for vents.
5. Leftovers will hold for 3 days.
Vitamin assumes 2 sausages per serving and all of the lentils are consumed which is a VERY large serving! Realistically there might be lentils left over and a few will solely have 1 sausage per serving.

Vitamin Info:

Energy: 926cal (46%)Carbohydrates: 53g (18%)Protein: 50g (100%)Fats: 56g (86%)Saturated Fats: 17g (106%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 7gMonounsaturated Fats: 26gTrans Fats: 0.4gLdl cholesterol: 126mg (42%)Sodium: 1797mg (78%)Potassium: 822mg (23%)Fiber: 24g (100%)Sugar: 5g (6%)Vitamin A: 10343IU (207%)Vitamin C: 9mg (11%)Calcium: 108mg (11%)Iron: 9mg (50%)

Key phrases: baked lentils, baked sausages

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Lifetime of Dozer

I had an off-site crew convention final week so Mr Dozer received despatched to the golden retriever boarder. That is the dinnertime photograph she despatched me. That’s Dozer on the correct – the tallest one, smacking his lips in anticipation!