I found this recipe for lentil sloppy joes that looks delicious, but it requires too many ingredients I don’t buy. Still, I took the fresh mushrooms idea from it, and I looked at my own Sloppy Joe recipe and came up with a new dish below. We spooned our lentil sloppy Joe sauce over a bed of brown rice instead of sandwich buns to make it easy to eat, so it wasn’t very sloppy.:) My sauce has a hint of heat, which we liked a lot:
Lentil Sloppy Joe’s Sauce
Ingredients:
1 medium onion, diced
3 ribs of celery, sliced
2 mini bell peppers, any color - I had red and yellow
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
2 3/4 cups water
1 teaspoon Creole seasoning
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
A sprinkle of dried red pepper
4 ounces of tomato sauce
2 tablespoons mustard
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1 tablespoon cider vinegar
A sprinkle of hot sauce
A sprinkle of Worcestershire sauce
Separately, I cooked 1 dry cup of brown rice.
Directions for the Sauce:
1) Into a 12-inch skillet, I combined 3/4 cup of lentils with 2 cups of water and let it simmer for 15 minutes before tossing in the onions, celery, bell peppers, and mushrooms. It takes about 25 minutes for the lentils to tenderize.
2) Next, I tossed in the dry seasonings followed by the wet ingredients, simmering and stirring them occasionally until the lentils finished cooking. I also added 1/4 cup of water when the mixture started to become dry.
We dipped out the brown rice and topped it with our spicy lentil sloppy joe sauce. How surprisenly filling and tasty, it makes a winning side dish or a light and complete protein dinner. Right now I’m liking this dish better than soup! Unlike soup, you can make less or more of it!
Only 3 pounds of dried lentils to go! Help me, I need more recipes!
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