Recipe first for 4 people based on Lentils with tomato - cooking method fried.
Preparation: Leave the lentils to soak for a few hours in cold water, eliminate those that have come to the surface, drain the rest and boil them for about an hour and a half. Heat two tablespoons of oil and a knob of butter in a saucepan, then fry the chopped sage leaf with the chopped bacon, carrot, celery and onion. Add the tomato pulp, season with salt and pepper, cook for a quarter of an hour. Drain the boiled lentils and put them in the sauce pan. Stir, cook for 10 minutes, pass onto a serving plate and serve. Accompanying wines: Piave Raboso DOC, Montescudaio Rosso DOC, Pollino DOC.
Ingredients: 250 g lentils - 500 g tomato pulp - 30 g bacon - 1 sage leaf - 1 onion - 1 stalk celery - 1 carrot - olive oil - butter - salt - pepper