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Can you expand on "very little effort". I think we may have very very different ideas of what that means.

by casion 6y ago

iagovar 6y ago
If you're super lazy, you just put everything in the pot, and wait. Lentils Vegetables of your choosing Maybe two potatoes One or two average sized chorizos A bit of salt A bit of olive oil (something else if olive oil is expensive in your area) A bit of cooking wine Little bit of curry If you don't have soup from previous stuff, you put one of this chicken soup pills, IDK how to translate to english, this how it looks: https://pepekitchen.com/articulo/nueva-presentacion-de-las-pastillas-de-caldo-de-pollo-avecrem/ https://pepekitchen.com/articulo/nueva-presentacion-de-las-p... Fill with water, fire and forget until it's done. You can make it way tastier and more elaborated but this is the most lazy and basic plate, and still tastes good. Well, you still have to cut stuff for a few minutes, if that's any effort.
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  Bullion. In the US (and I think UK) there's also a dense liquid version (local brand name is "Better Than Bullion") which is quite a bit tastier imo.
  - detritus 6y ago
    *Bouillon - personally I'd prefer some bullion! :) And I don't think I've ever seen that here in the UK, although I have come across it on the internet beforehand, during a bit of a seach on OTS meat stock and such a few years back. My go-tos are the Knorr Stock Pots and Concentrated Meat stocks, which seem to have similar ingredient lists to yours.
    - ianmcgowan 6y ago
      OXO cubes or Bisto would be the UK equivalent? Or they were when I was a kid..
      - KineticLensman 6y ago
        UK here. Oxo cubes are still a big thing, for those of us who cook. You can get them in Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Veg flavours. Perhaps others. If I'm cooking a vegetarian meal that needs stock I use Miso paste.
      - detritus 6y ago
        Sorry, yes - I meant in relation to the person I was responding to, not OP - the bouillon gloop, rather than the cubes. I'd still suggest that Oxo cubes are different beasts to the cubes up there - again, i think Knorr would be an equivalent, as un-British a brand as it is. Not a fan of Oxo - weird composition and not very nice or meaty taste, to me anyway.
- i_am_proteus 6y ago
  A can of crushed tomatoes instead of the cooking wine also yields a good stew. :)
- chanmad29 6y ago
  Good recipe. For the vegans out there, the chorizo in your recipe can be replaced with store bought one or homemade as below: https://tasty.co/recipe/vegan-chorizo https://tasty.co/recipe/vegan-chorizo Also below are few more varieties of vegan lentil recipes: https://www.rainbowplantlife.com/blog/how-to-cook-lentils-in-the-instant-pot https://www.rainbowplantlife.com/blog/how-to-cook-lentils-in...
- boring_twenties 6y ago
  They sell actual chicken stock, too. E.g.: https://smile.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Organic-Chicken/dp/B074VBLF7R https://smile.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Organic-Chicken/... Not as good as home made by a long shot but it is a LOT better than those bouillon cubes (what you refer to as "pills")! Please don't use those ever again, lol
  - iagovar 6y ago
    IDK, the ones I use are enough for that recipe, there's plenty stuff to give taste. You can get that in Spain too but it's just much more volume and weight and I walk my groceries to home. There's one broth brand, Aneto, that actually tastes quite good. I see they even have an english website: https://www.caldoaneto.com/en/caldos/caldos-basicos-en/ https://www.caldoaneto.com/en/caldos/caldos-basicos-en/
karanbhangui 6y ago
Pressure cookers are amazing for this. I make lentil stews with 5-10 min of prep and 10 min unsupervised cook time (using Instant Pot).
vsef 6y ago
You put lentils in salted water and simmer for ~30 minutes, is the basic recipe. Unclear how this could be lower effort, its similar to boiling dried pasta. Even seasoning doesn't have to require chopping, smash a piece of garlic, don't even dice, throw it in, delish. I only ever make a full 1 lb bag of dried lentils or beans at a time, what you don't eat immediately stores well in a 1 gallon zip lock bag and keeps for longer than a week. Dish out half cup at a time and hit briefly in microwave. Lentils (and split peas) are the easiest legumes since they don't even require thinking ahead. But beans with a $60 slow cooker are arguably even lower effort.
- gavinray 6y ago
  My problem is that cooking requires you to wait between 30-70 minutes for the food, disregarding any actual work you have to put in. I don't even eat oven-cooked premade meals because pre-heating the oven and cooking it takes so long by the time it finishes I could have driven somewhere and bought + ate food already. This might sound terrible, but since I was 16 and living on my own I've never eaten food that required cooking. Came up with entire mealplans of stuff you can buy that's pretty much ready to eat. Okay, ready to get grossed out? ---------- Breakfast (~$3.00, 600kcal, 50g protein) ---------- - Eggs, cracked on a plate/bowl and put in the microwave to cook over-medium, with salsa and cheese - Greek yogurt/Cottage cheese - Oats with milk and some sort of fake sugar and flavor extract (vanilla, almond, pumpkin)/cinnamon, etc, sometimes with whey - Fresh cucumber with no/lowfat italian vinagrette ---------- Lunch/Dinner ($4.00, 500-800kcal, 60-80g protein): ---------- - 12oz Canned chicken breast + turkey chili + cheese + tortilla chips (OR) - 12oz Canned chicken breast + canned field peas & snaps + green beans For years I also only owned a single plate/bowl and spoon and eat every meal with it, then washed it and put it back when I was done to avoid having to do dishes.
  - sp332 6y ago
    Well that is a bit impatient :) But you can get close to this by picking one day a week to make a bunch of meals ahead of time. Since there's not much to do while waiting for lentils to cook, you can prep and cook other things in parallel. Should take about an hour once you get the hang of it. Stash the meals in the fridge and then you just have to warm them up when you want to eat.
redisman 6y ago
It's low effort if you have something like a crockpot. If you don't then you get a lot longer series of steps.
- notyourday 6y ago
  Crock pots are $20 in stores targeting poor people.
- iagovar 6y ago
  Just a pot, cheapest one may be what, 5€, I mean I bet you can find something around that price in the US.

Can you expand on "very little effort". I think we may have very very different ideas of what that means.

by casion 6y ago

Can you expand on "very little effort". I think we may have very very different ideas of what that means.

If you're super lazy, you just put everything in the pot, and wait. Lentils Vegetables of your choosing Maybe two potatoes One or two average sized chorizos A bit of salt A bit of olive oil (something else if olive oil is expensive in your area) A bit of cooking wine Little bit of curry If you don't have soup from previous stuff, you put one of this chicken soup pills, IDK how to translate to english, this how it looks: https://pepekitchen.com/articulo/nueva-presentacion-de-las-pastillas-de-caldo-de-pollo-avecrem/ https://pepekitchen.com/articulo/nueva-presentacion-de-las-p... Fill with water, fire and forget until it's done. You can make it way tastier and more elaborated but this is the most lazy and basic plate, and still tastes good. Well, you still have to cut stuff for a few minutes, if that's any effort.

vorpalhex 6y ago
Bullion. In the US (and I think UK) there's also a dense liquid version (local brand name is "Better Than Bullion") which is quite a bit tastier imo.
- detritus 6y ago
  *Bouillon - personally I'd prefer some bullion! :) And I don't think I've ever seen that here in the UK, although I have come across it on the internet beforehand, during a bit of a seach on OTS meat stock and such a few years back. My go-tos are the Knorr Stock Pots and Concentrated Meat stocks, which seem to have similar ingredient lists to yours.
  - ianmcgowan 6y ago
    OXO cubes or Bisto would be the UK equivalent? Or they were when I was a kid..
    - KineticLensman 6y ago
      UK here. Oxo cubes are still a big thing, for those of us who cook. You can get them in Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Veg flavours. Perhaps others. If I'm cooking a vegetarian meal that needs stock I use Miso paste.
    - detritus 6y ago
      Sorry, yes - I meant in relation to the person I was responding to, not OP - the bouillon gloop, rather than the cubes. I'd still suggest that Oxo cubes are different beasts to the cubes up there - again, i think Knorr would be an equivalent, as un-British a brand as it is. Not a fan of Oxo - weird composition and not very nice or meaty taste, to me anyway.
i_am_proteus 6y ago
A can of crushed tomatoes instead of the cooking wine also yields a good stew. :)
chanmad29 6y ago
Good recipe. For the vegans out there, the chorizo in your recipe can be replaced with store bought one or homemade as below: https://tasty.co/recipe/vegan-chorizo https://tasty.co/recipe/vegan-chorizo Also below are few more varieties of vegan lentil recipes: https://www.rainbowplantlife.com/blog/how-to-cook-lentils-in-the-instant-pot https://www.rainbowplantlife.com/blog/how-to-cook-lentils-in...
boring_twenties 6y ago
They sell actual chicken stock, too. E.g.: https://smile.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Organic-Chicken/dp/B074VBLF7R https://smile.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Organic-Chicken/... Not as good as home made by a long shot but it is a LOT better than those bouillon cubes (what you refer to as "pills")! Please don't use those ever again, lol
- iagovar 6y ago
  IDK, the ones I use are enough for that recipe, there's plenty stuff to give taste. You can get that in Spain too but it's just much more volume and weight and I walk my groceries to home. There's one broth brand, Aneto, that actually tastes quite good. I see they even have an english website: https://www.caldoaneto.com/en/caldos/caldos-basicos-en/ https://www.caldoaneto.com/en/caldos/caldos-basicos-en/

karanbhangui 6y ago

Pressure cookers are amazing for this. I make lentil stews with 5-10 min of prep and 10 min unsupervised cook time (using Instant Pot).

vsef 6y ago

You put lentils in salted water and simmer for ~30 minutes, is the basic recipe. Unclear how this could be lower effort, its similar to boiling dried pasta. Even seasoning doesn't have to require chopping, smash a piece of garlic, don't even dice, throw it in, delish. I only ever make a full 1 lb bag of dried lentils or beans at a time, what you don't eat immediately stores well in a 1 gallon zip lock bag and keeps for longer than a week. Dish out half cup at a time and hit briefly in microwave. Lentils (and split peas) are the easiest legumes since they don't even require thinking ahead. But beans with a $60 slow cooker are arguably even lower effort.

gavinray 6y ago
My problem is that cooking requires you to wait between 30-70 minutes for the food, disregarding any actual work you have to put in. I don't even eat oven-cooked premade meals because pre-heating the oven and cooking it takes so long by the time it finishes I could have driven somewhere and bought + ate food already. This might sound terrible, but since I was 16 and living on my own I've never eaten food that required cooking. Came up with entire mealplans of stuff you can buy that's pretty much ready to eat. Okay, ready to get grossed out? ---------- Breakfast (~$3.00, 600kcal, 50g protein) ---------- - Eggs, cracked on a plate/bowl and put in the microwave to cook over-medium, with salsa and cheese - Greek yogurt/Cottage cheese - Oats with milk and some sort of fake sugar and flavor extract (vanilla, almond, pumpkin)/cinnamon, etc, sometimes with whey - Fresh cucumber with no/lowfat italian vinagrette ---------- Lunch/Dinner ($4.00, 500-800kcal, 60-80g protein): ---------- - 12oz Canned chicken breast + turkey chili + cheese + tortilla chips (OR) - 12oz Canned chicken breast + canned field peas & snaps + green beans For years I also only owned a single plate/bowl and spoon and eat every meal with it, then washed it and put it back when I was done to avoid having to do dishes.
- sp332 6y ago
  Well that is a bit impatient :) But you can get close to this by picking one day a week to make a bunch of meals ahead of time. Since there's not much to do while waiting for lentils to cook, you can prep and cook other things in parallel. Should take about an hour once you get the hang of it. Stash the meals in the fridge and then you just have to warm them up when you want to eat.

redisman 6y ago

It's low effort if you have something like a crockpot. If you don't then you get a lot longer series of steps.

notyourday 6y ago
Crock pots are $20 in stores targeting poor people.
iagovar 6y ago
Just a pot, cheapest one may be what, 5€, I mean I bet you can find something around that price in the US.