This sausage and lentil casserole is healthy, delicious comfort-food, that even the children relish eating! The recipe is calculated using WeightWatchers ProPoints, and serves 4 hearty appetites. A proper alternative to the Sunday roast.
Sausage and Lentil Casserole recipe
You will need:
Sausage and Lentil Casserole: 8 WeightWatchers ProPoints
Ingredients
- 1 onion chopped into wedges
- 1 leek finely sliced
- 4 small carrots
- Low calorie cooking spray
- 150 g dried puy lentils
- 200 ml fiesty red wine bordeaux or burgandy
- 500 ml chicken stock from a cube
- 8 low-fat pork sausages
- 1 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
Instructions
- Spray a flame-proof casserole dish with the cooking spray and fry the veg over a medium heat for about 10 minutes, until softened.
- Add the wine and let bubble, then add the stock and bring to a simmer.
- Meanwhile wash the lentils in cold water, then cover in a pan with cold water. Bring to the boil, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Spray a frying pan with cooking spray and fry the sausages until browned.
- Drain the lentils and add to the vegetable mixture with the sausages and tomatoes.
- Bring to the boil, and cook in the oven at 150°C for 1 hour and 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, and adding water if the lentils look dry.
- Alternatively, once bubbling transfer to a slow cooker and cook on medium for around 5-6 hours.
We served this with steamed savoy cabbage. It all went, and seconds were requested! Result!
I’m linking this post to Romanian Mum’s Foodie Friday, where you will find a whole host of meaty recipes!
oh this sounds lovely will definately be giving it a go next weekend
This looks yummy and would work for me on the 4-hour body diet too (which I am sticking to religiously of course… NOT)
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Of course you are! YOu and me both: note the inclusion of wine and sausages!
Looks fab, I’m going to try it!
Go for it – it is actually very nice, given that it doesn’t have a thousand calories!
It looks delish and eventually healthy. Thanks for sharing your recipe with us.
Wow! I can’t wait to try this one, it’s really looks delicious…
So, the big question, how you getting on with the slow cooker????
Well it’s out of it’s box 😉
tea sorted for tomorrow
yes, and then you can eat 7 cupcakes from the hoarde you brought back from BlogCamp entirely guilt-free!
These sausage and lentil casserole looks delicious. Thanks for sharing these with us.
This looks delicious!! Now tell me, are dried puy lentils easy to locate in the supermarket? Thank you very much for linking up xx
Very easy. They’ll be in a box with the other dried pulses, usually somewhere near the tinned veg 😉 Good luck!
Right, will look out for them!! xx
The dish looks like something I would really enjoy eating! Yum to those sausages!
Thank you for joining in with #fridayfoodie hon x