Wonderful Slow Cooker Lentils

Name: Wonderful Slow Cooker Lentils
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups lentils, sorted and rinsed; 2 large onions, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes, with liquid; 2 cups chicken broth; 2 large carrots, sliced; 1/2 cup sliced celery; 1 bell pepper, diced; 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; 1 bay leaf; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon marjoram; 1/8 teaspoon sage; 1/8 teaspoon thyme; fresh ground pepper; 1/2 lb low-fat cheddar cheese, shredded

Submitted by PaulaG

"What a great dish for the cooler months ahead. Source: The Best of Jenny's Kitchen by Jennifer Raymond (June 1982.)"

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Ready In:: 2hrs 50mins
Ingredients:: 16
Serves:: 10

ingredients

1 ³⁄₄ cups lentils, sorted and rinsed
2 large onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes, with liquid
2 cups chicken broth
2 large carrots, sliced
¹⁄₂ cup sliced celery
1 bell pepper, diced
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 bay leaf
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₈ teaspoon marjoram
¹⁄₈ teaspoon sage
¹⁄₈ teaspoon thyme
fresh ground pepper
¹⁄₂ lb low-fat cheddar cheese, shredded

directions

Place all ingredients, except the cheese, in the crockpot, stir.
Cook on high setting for 2-1/2 hours, or until the lentils are tender.
Stir in the cheese until it is melted and serve.

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Reviews

This is a nice lentil recipe but found that the carrots cooked too much. Next time I will add the carrots near the end so that they will be alittle crunchy and not soft.

I_love2nurse in Can
cook time is hours away from reality - I cannot review the entire recipe since this is a fatal flaw

sherry n.
Originally made Nov.19 : I doubled the recipe for my 6L crockpot and brought this to a potluck dinner. 3L got eaten up and I had 3L left to freeze. Itz a good comfort food! Dec.5 : Thawed for dinner. Came out more like a soup, which was still good. I added grilled (cubed)chicken and parmesan cheese! yummy!

SoupCookie
Great taste but slow is the operative word here ! I am just a novice using my slow cooker but mine needed up to 2 hours longer than stated in the recipe - maybe my high setting isn't high enough. Good result but just not in time for dinner. Certainly good for my learning curve !!

katew
First let me say that lentils have never been something I was too interested in eating. But my mom has been trying to be more vegetarian and I decided to try this. Surprisingly, I really like this a lot. And of course I like that I can throw everything in a crock pot and not worry about it. Thank you!

Liara

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PaulaG

Hixson, Tennessee

I came to this site in March of 2004. It was then called Recipezaar. This site was the first on-line site that I ever joined. I first popped in 2003 while searching for a Peach Cobbler Recipe. In March of 2004, DH was having shoulder surgery and I was looking for a Split Pea Soup. Once again I found myself on Zaar as it came to be called. Over the years I hung out and learned from some of the best home cooks in the country, I posted over 700 recipes on the site, reviewed over 3500 recipes and posted over 3000 food photos. Over the next 10 years the site made many changes and in 2010 it was sold to to Food Network and became Food.com. Until last year we played games, talked and shared with one another. As a result of the community and the relationships I built I got to meet some wonderful people from all over the country. I also have a great number of friends that I have never meet face to face. Some of us still hang out at various places across the net. Zaar was more than a cooking community. It was an internet community of friendship. Life is an adventure ever changing.

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