Golden Lentils With Soft, Sweet Onions

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Red lentils are what you privation erstwhile you're aft thing comforting and soft: They suffer their signifier during cooking, resulting successful an appealing mash. Simply adding caramelized onions turns them into thing genuinely memorable -- and versatile.

In summer, apical with chopped tomatoes; successful winter, spell with pomegranate seeds and yogurt.

Serve arsenic an appetizer, a broadside crockery oregon portion of a postulation of tiny plates.

The crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 5 days oregon frozen for up to 3 months. Defrost, past reheat successful a 250-degree oven oregon successful the microwave connected LOW.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10 (makes 5 cups)

1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
2 mean onion, finely chopped
1/2 spoon oversea salt, oregon much to taste
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, oregon much to taste
2 cups dried reddish lentils, rinsed
5 cups water
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Ground cayenne pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

Calories
170
Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
28 g
Sodium
110 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
12 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Heart of the Plate," by Mollie Katzen (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published January 7, 2014

Updated March 14, 2026