These Poached Eggs on Spicy Lentils from Best of Bridge Home Cooking are made in a slow cooker. It makes for a wonderful winter dish accompanied with hot rice and some warm naan.
Best of Bridge Home Cooking: 250 Easy and Delicious Recipes
The Best of Bridge is back with this collection of recipes that evokes all the goodness of home cooking–that wonderful feeling of family and comfort.
This is food that makes you feel good and tastes great, too. These soul-satisfying recipes are easy, dependable, reassuringly familiar and above all, delicious. They will inspire you to get back in the kitchen and create some special memories and meals around your table.
There are loads of tips to help you deal with the midweek madness of meal preparation and, as always, the dishes are made with ingredients that are easily found at your local supermarket.
Within the 250 recipes there are dishes for every occasion and meal, whether it’s a soothing soup for lunch, one-pot dinners for those harried weeknights or delicious meatless mains.
Banana Nut Bread is sure to get your day off to a great start and Potato Pancakes with Smoked Salmon make the perfect lunch or light supper. Spinach Tortellini Bake or Turkey Mushroom Meatloaf make weeknight meals easy and delicious. And if you’re looking for entertaining ideas, look no further than Steamed Mussels with Herb Cream Sauce or Cauliflower with Hazelnut Crumb Topping. And Chunky Chocolate Shortbread or Luscious Lemon Squares are just some of the desserts and sweet treats that are sure to please!
I grew up with my mom cooking out of her favourite Best of Bridge recipe book. She still uses it to this day. The familiar white pages with red borders and easy to read print is now stained and obviously well loved. The pages are covered with plenty of notes she has made over the years as she has made each recipe her own. I guess it runs in the family – I can’t leave recipes alone either!
Best of Bridge is well known for sharing only easy, tested, tasted and delicious recipes that work well for busy families. Best of Bridge Home Cooking is no exception to that rule.
There are recipes to cover weekday cooking in its entirety from soup to dessert, you will find this recipe book will become a staple in your everyday life. I love that the recipes use easy to find ingredients I can grab at my local grocery store too.
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Poached Eggs on Spicy Lentils
Slow Cooker Recipe
This delicious combination is a great cold-weather dish. Add the chiles if you prefer a little spice and accompany with warm Indian bread, such as naan, and hot rice.
Poached Eggs on Spicy Lentils
This delicious combination is a great cold-weather dish. Add the chiles if you prefer a little spice and accompany with warm Indian bread, such as naan, and hot rice.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp minced gingerroot
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp cracked black peppercorns
- 1 cup dried red lentils, rinsed
- 1 can tomatoes, 28 oz/796 ml, with juice, coarsely chopped
- 2 cups ready-to-use vegetable broth
- 1 cup coconut milk
- Salt
- 1 long green chile pepper, or 2 Thai bird’s-eye chiles, optional, finely chopped
- 4 large eggs, see tips, opposite, poached
- Finely chopped fresh parsley, optional
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin and peppercorns and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add lentils, tomatoes and broth and bring to a boil.
- Transfer to a medium (about 4-quart) slow cooker. (Mixture can be cooled, covered and refrigerated for up to 2 days at this point.)
- Cover and cook on Low for 6 hours or on High for 3 hours, until lentils are tender and mixture is bubbly. Stir in coconut milk, salt to taste, and chile pepper (if using). Cover and cook for 20 to 30 minutes until heated through. When ready to serve, ladle into soup bowls and top each serving with a poached egg. Garnish with parsley (if using).
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
To poach eggs: In a saucepan, bring about 2 inches (5 cm) lightly salted water to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and drop poaching rings into water. Break eggs, one at a time, into a measuring cup and pour one egg into each ring. Cook until whites are set and centers are still soft, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from water using a slotted spoon.
If you choose to halve this recipe, use a small (11⁄2- to 31⁄2-quart) slow cooker.
Courtesy of Best of Bridge Home Cooking by The Best of Bridge © 2015 www.bestofbridge.com Reprinted with permission. Available where books are sold.
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!
kathy downey
Tuesday 1st of December 2015
I nned to go out and get an egg poacher
heidi c.
Friday 30th of October 2015
I have never had lentils outside of lentil soup. Sounds like a different flavourful recipe.
kathy downey
Sunday 25th of October 2015
I tried the Spicy Lentils without the eggs and it was so tasty
kathy downey
Thursday 22nd of October 2015
This book would make a lovely Christmas gift
Lynda Cook
Wednesday 21st of October 2015
This looks like a great cookbook to own, the recipe here looks very tasty but I totally suck at making poached eggs!!
Elizabeth
Wednesday 21st of October 2015
Get an egg poacher! It makes it so easy, I am good at doing it freestyle but I pull out my poacher when I'm making a quick lunch as its so foolproof!