Ingredients
1 white onion finely sliced
2 tablespoon olive oil
3 garlic cloves
2 carrot scrubbed and diced
150gr red lentils
1 homemade vegetable stock
generous sprigs / parsley
Method
heat the olive oil in a medium pan , add the onion and fry for 2 mins while you slice the garlic and dice the carrots. Add them to the pan and cook briefly over the heat. Pour in 1 litre of the boiling from the kettle , stir in the lentils and homemade stock, then cover the pan and cook over a medium heat for 15 minutes until the lentils are tender . take off the heat and stir in the parsley . Ladle into bowls and scatter with extra parsley leaves if you like.
