Chicken With Green Lentils

Description: If you read through my recipes you will find a number of recipes using lentils. Over the past year or so of eating a healthier diet I have come to know and enjoy lentils a great deal. So, when I see a new recipe involving lentils I like to add it to my collection. This one I found in the Winter 2008 version of the BBC Easy Cook magazine. The recipe says that it is able to be frozen.

Ingredients:

• 2 slices bacon, chopped
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 2 large skinless chicken thighs, skin removed
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 1 garlic clove, sliced
• 2 teaspoons flour
• 2 teaspoons tomato paste
• 5 fluid ounces dry white wine
• 6 2/3 fluid ounces chicken stock
• 1 2/3 ounces green lentils
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 3 ounces brown button mushrooms, halved

Steps:

1. Fry the bacon quickly in the oil, then lift onto a plate.
2. Add the chicken and brown on each side. Set aside with the bacon.
3. Tip the onion and garlic into the pan and cook for 5 minutes.
4. Stir in the flour and tomato paste, then stir over a low heat for 3 minutes.
5. Add the wine, stock, lentils and thyme.
6. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
7. Stir in the mushrooms, bacon and chicken.
8. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes, until the lentils are tender and the chicken cooked.
9. Season and serve.