Recipe - Lentils

One half kg Lentils; preferably brown
1 lg Onion
1 lg Onion; chopped
150 g Bacon; in one piece
1 Carrot
1 teaspoon Peppercorns; whole
One fourth teaspoon Cumin; whole
One half kg Polish sausages;
2 tablespoon Cooking oil
1 Clove garlic
One half teaspoon Thyme
Salt
1 Bay leaf

1. Soak lentils in water for 1 hour.

2. Drain.

3. Boil water with bacon, onion, carrot, pepper, bay leaf in a Dutch oven.

4. Add lentils, thyme and cumin. Cook over low heat for about 1 hour.

5. Cook sausage in oil and add to lentils.

6. Discard oil from frying pan and add new oil. Cook chopped onions until
transparent. Add garlic just until it smells.

7. Place 2 ladles of lentils in the onion mixture, and press with the back
of a spoon to make a paste. Add salt and pepper and return to Dutch oven.

8. Season with a little more cumin, cook 12 minutes.

Serve it also with kassler.
Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Leon & Miriam
Posvolsky miriamp@pobox.com on Nov 09, 1997