Born from the Kasbahs of Turkey. Smokey, mysterious and beautiful with the ability to take your breath away.
Recipe
2 tbsp olive oil
1 garlic clove chopped
1 green pepper diced
1 onion diced
1 dried red chilli
1 tsp caraway seeds
500g passata
tin of plum tomatoes
salt and pepper
500cl vegetable stock
Directions
Heat the oil and add the chopped garlic, the caraway seeds and crumble the dried chilli, heat till fragrant. Add the onion and green pepper and cook for 10 mins or until till soft . Add the tin of tomatoes and the lentils stir for 2 mins. Add the passata and the vegetable stock. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 40 mins. To serve, you could add some grated cheese or/and some finely chopped fresh parsley
Health benefits
Lentils are so good for keeping you full for a long time as well as cleaning out your insides with all that fibre.
Canned tomatoes contain lycopene. Lycopene is an antioxidant and has cancer-preventing properties, these cancers now include colorectal, prostate, breast, endometrial, lung, and pancreatic cancers. Prevention of heart disease has been shown to be another antioxidant role played by lycopene.
Did You know…
In one of the short stories in Dubliners by James Joyce, a character eats caraway seeds to mask the alcohol on his breath.
