Recipe of the Week: Sweet and Sour Lentils Over Rice

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The following flexible recipe is from SurvivalBlog reader D.G.

D.G. writes: “This Sweet and Sour Lentils Over Rice recipe is a variation on something that my wife found online, back in the early AOL days of the Internet.  This is one way that we use up some of our storage food stocks. When you combine legumes and rice, you get a complete protein that your body can digest and use just as well as it does meat.

Note: This recipe can be scaled up or down, depending on how many people you are serving.  Plan on 3/4 cup of lentils and 1 cup of rice for each adult.

This recipe takes just 40 minutes to prepare and cook. Your supper is ready once the rice has cooked through to softness.”

Seasoning Ingredients
  • 1 onion, diced and sautéed
  • ¼ cup of pineapple juice, or you may substitute apple juice
  • ¼ c. apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. honey OR ¼ c. sugar
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed

(The seasonings can be doubled if serving a large group.)

Directions

Rinse the rice. Put it in a saucepan or in an electric rice cooker. The ratio to use is 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of water.  Add salt, to taste. Begin cooking rice for 20 to 40 minutes, depending on the variety.  Set the rice aside, hot, with the lld on.

To cook the lentils: Add 1 cup of lentils to 3 cups of water. Let them simmer for 20 to 22 minutes.

While that is simmering, sauté the onion. Once that is done, combine the onion with the juice, vinegar, honey or sugar), and garlic.

Heat the seasonings mixture together with the lentils until they are bubbling.

SERVING

Serve the seasoned lentils on a bed of rice.

An Asian-style salad or some raw vegetables and a tasty dip will make it a complete meal.

STORAGE

Leftovers can be stored refrigerated for up to three days.

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