🇫🇷 French

Lentils Normande

Name: Lentils Normande
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 58 min
Total time: 73 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Butter; 150 ml Heavy Cream; to taste Salt; 2, halved and sliced Onion; 4 cloves, crushed Garlic; 1 tsp Black Peppercorns; 2 Bay Leaf; 250 g Lentils; 500 ml Stock or Broth; 300 ml Apple Cider; 2 Apple

🇫🇷 French

Low-and-slow braised lentils in a deeply savoured sauce — fork-tender and rich with aromatics. Ready in 73 minutes including prep.

Prep 15 min Cook 58 min Serves 4 Hard

Ingredients

Butter2 tbsp
Heavy Cream150 ml
Saltto taste
Onion2, halved and sliced
Garlic4 cloves, crushed
Black Peppercorns1 tsp
Bay Leaf2
Lentils250 g
Stock or Broth500 ml
Apple Cider300 ml
Apple2

Optional extras

Tarragonhandful, to finish

Instructions

1
Brown the lentils deeply in the Butter in a heavy pot — patience here pays off later.
2
Remove it, then let the onion and garlic soften in the drippings with the black peppercorns.
3
Return the lentils, add the stock and bay leaves, and bring to the gentlest simmer.
4
Cover and braise low and slow until the lentils yields to a spoon, about 45 minutes.
5
Skim the fat, reduce the sauce to a glaze, and serve with something starchy to catch every drop.

Chef's tip

Skim the fat from the surface before the final reduction for a cleaner sauce.

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Watch how it's made

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