American
Lentil Sloppy Joes
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Lentil Sloppy Joes is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the lentils.
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Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium and cook the onion, garlic, and bell pepper until soft, about 6 minutes.
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Stir in the chili powder and smoked paprika for 30 seconds, then add the lentils and broth and bring to a boil.
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Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until the lentils are tender, about 22 minutes.
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Stir in the tomato sauce, tomato paste, ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, salt, and pepper and simmer uncovered until thick and saucy, about 8 minutes.
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Pile the mixture onto the buns and serve.
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Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lentil Sloppy Joes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Lentil Sloppy Joes carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 340 kcal
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbs
- 50 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 12 g
- Sugar
- 12 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lentil Sloppy Joes takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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