I am teaching my 7 year old daughter (Julia) simple meals to cook, so that she can cook her own meals. While she still requires a little help, and Lucy almost 4 years old always gets a tasks this was an easy recipe and it really did taste moreish.
Ingredients
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- Tin of peeled whole tomatoes (or you can peel 4 tomatoes, if you do not want the sugar that comes with the tinned ones)
- A Tin of Lentils (or about ½ a cup soaked overnight in 1 cup of water and a teaspoon of vinegar)
- Dried powdered Cumin and dried Basil
- One chopped onion
- About a teaspoon of crushed garlic
- A handful of fresh basil
- Pasta, we used spinach Tagliatelle (made using spinach juice)
- 2 x teaspoons olive oil
- Optional ¼ cup red wine
Method
- Take medium size saucepan and place on stove, get it warm (should take between 1 and 2 mins)
- Add oil, add onions, and cover the onions with oil
- This must cook for about 3 mins
- While that is busy, blend the tomatoes and lentils, and a teaspoon of cumin, until smooth’ish, not too much (for tins drain the liquid, not completely)
- That should not take more than 3 mins.
- The onions should be getting clear, no add the garlic and basil and stir that in, simmer for 1mins add red wine cook off for about 1 min
- Then add the blended mixture
- Simmer for about 15-20 mins (until most of liquid gone)
- In the meantime chop the basil
- With 5 minutes to go, add boiling water into pot deep enough to cook the pasta (a decent amount) add 1 table spoon salt
- Then add the pasta into the pot and turn off and cover the sauce
- The pasta we used need 4 mins to cook, once time is up drain in colander and place back over the pasta pot and sprinkle with olive oil
- Add chopped basil into the sauce, and stir it in
- Serve (with some grated Parmesan if required)
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