Green Lentil Pate

Name: Green Lentil Pate
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 1 small onion. finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves. crushed; 20g sunflower seeds; 1 tblspn olive oil to fry; 60g Green Lentils; 1 tblspn Balsamic Vinegar (optional); 1 Vegetable Stock Cube; to taste Salt and Freshly ground black pepper

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Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 45 mins

Serves: 8

Snack

Ingredients

1 small onion. finely chopped
2 garlic cloves. crushed
20g sunflower seeds
1 tblspn olive oil to fry
60g Green Lentils
1 tblspn Balsamic Vinegar (optional)
1 Vegetable Stock Cube
to taste Salt and Freshly ground black pepper

Accompaniment

Method

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1. Boil the green lentils for 10 minutes, drain and rinse before returning them to boil in the vegetable stock for a further 20 minutes. Drain, but do not rinse.

2. Lightly fry the onion, garlic and sunflower seeds in the olive oil for 3-4 minutes before adding the (optional) balsamic vinegar.

3. Add the lentils and stir to allow flavours to mix.

4. Season well (plenty of salt) to taste, before pureeing with a hand-held liquidiser. The sunflower seeds ensure a texture remains.

This yielded 210g which spread equally between two pots (105g each) meant that a serving of 1/4 of a pot provides 52.5 calories and 3g of fat