Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mushroom and lentil pâté. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mushroom and lentil pâté is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mushroom and lentil pâté is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mushroom and lentil pâté using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mushroom and lentil pâté:
- Make ready 250 g mushrooms (i used chestnut) chopped
- Make ready 8-10 dried mushrooms soaked in warm water
- Make ready 150 g red lentils
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1 celery stick
- Get 1 clove garlic finely chopped
- Make ready 1 sprig thyme leaves
- Make ready Half a packet of cooked chestnuts
- Take 1/2 lemon zested and juiced
- Prepare Seasoning
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil (plus extra for frying)
Steps to make Mushroom and lentil pâté:
- Soak the dried mushrooms for at least 20 mins in warm water. Then drain the liquid into a jug (this is the start of your stock) squeezing the moisture out of the mushrooms. Finely chop the mushrooms set aside.
- Top the jug of mushroom liquid up to 375ml and add to a saucepan with the bay leaves and lentils. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 15 minutes, until the lentils are cooked. Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile finely chop the onion, garlic and celery And gently fry off in a pan with the soaked mushrooms and thyme leaves. Then add the fresh mushrooms and fry until soft.
- Once cooked, set aside to cool, before putting in a blender with the chestnuts. Blitz until finely chopped.
- Then stir into the cooked lentils with the lemon zest, Lemon juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Once mixed, put in the fridge to solidify slightly. Serve with whatever you fancy.
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