Spanish-Style Braised Lentils with Sausage

Name: Spanish-Style Braised Lentils with Sausage
Yield: Serves 4 as a main course
Cuisine: Europe, Spanish & Portuguese
Ingredients: 1 cup, lentils du Puy, picked over and rinsed; 5 sprigs, fresh thyme, tied into a bundle with kitchen twine; 1 3/4 cups, canned low-sodium chicken broth; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 4 medium cloves, garlic, slivered; 1 , medium onion, diced; , Salt; 1 1/4 teaspoons, smoked bittersweet paprika or regular sweet paprika; 1 (14.5-ounce) can, diced tomatoes, drained; 8 ounces, kielbasa sausage, split lengthwise, then halved crosswise to yield 4 pieces; , Ground black pepper; 2 , medium scallions, sliced thin on the bias

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Spanish cooking is widely known for its innovative dishes prepared from humble ingredients. Case in point: meaty green lentils braised with robustly flavored morcilla sausage. Cheap and healthy, the lentils readily absorb the flavors of the robust sausage.

SERVES4 as a main course

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted a quicker approach to the classic Spanish-style braised lentils and sausage recipe and decided the best way to make that happen was to give the lentils a head start by simmering them until tender. Then, when the lentils were just ...

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