Lentil Soup With Salt Pork Recipes

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions, carrots, and celery; cook and stir until onion is tender. Stir in garlic, bay leaf, oregano, and basil; cook for 2 minutes.
• Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for at least 1 hour. When ready to serve stir in spinach, and cook until it wilts. Stir in vinegar, and season to taste with salt and pepper, and more vinegar if desired.

Steps:

• Into a casserole, brown salt pork cubes over medium heat.
• Remove and, if desired, reserve salt pork cubes.
• Saute chopped onion and leek in salt pork fat.
• Stir in lentils.
• Pour in broth; bring to a boil.
• Lower heat; mix in minced celery and carrot, crushed garlic, bay leaf and chopped parsley.
• Simmer for 1 hour or until lentils are tender.
• Season.
• Serve really hot, garnished if desired with reserved salt pork cubes.

Steps:

• In a large pot, brown the salt pork over medium heat.
• Remove the bits and saute the onion and carrot about five minutes in the fat from the pork.
• Add the garlic and saute a minute longer.
• Re-add the pork bits as well as the parsley, lentils, and water or stock.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low.
• Simmer about 45 minutes to an hour, or until the lentils are soft and cooked through, but not falling apart.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve with a crusty bread or crackers.

Steps:

• In a 3-quart sauté pan or casserole, heat bacon on medium-high until fat starts to render. Shuffle bacon to one side of the pan, add pork and cook about 10 minutes, turning, until pork is lightly browned (though you do not have to be too fussy about it). Add celery and shallots, reduce heat to medium-low and cook about 10 minutes more, stirring until vegetables soften. Add sage and season with salt and generously with pepper.
• Add wine. Bring to a simmer. Add chicken stock and stir in porcini and lentils. Cover and cook on low 45 minutes to an hour, until pork and lentils are tender. Stir in cream, bring to a simmer and check seasonings.
• Scatter celery leaves on top. Serve from the pan or transfer to a shallow bowl.