Vegetarian Hot Pot for one

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Preparation Time: 15 minutes | Cooking Time:25 minutes | Freezable?: No

Vegetarian Hot Pot recipe for one. Simple winter warming recipe with a slight twist.

Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

1/2 tbsp sunflower oil
75g red lentils, cooked
250g leeks
1 small onion
100g swede, cubed
100g carrots, cubed
14g plain flour
1/2 tbsp tomato puree
1/2 tbsp yeast extract
1/2 small eating apple
250g potatoes
200g can butter beans
1/2 tbsp butter or low fat alternative
20g grated cheese or vegan equivalent
1 stock cube and seasoning to taste

Method

Sweat* the leeks, onion, swede and carrots over low until the root vegetables soften a little
Mix the flour and tomato puree with a little stock to form a paste. Add the yeast extract (marmite), salt and pepper.
Chop up the apple and a few cubes of potato and add to the other vegetables with the cooked red lentils.
Put all the ingredients into a slow cooker (or casserole dish if you haven’t got one), and add the stock. Cover with the sliced potatoes, dot with butter or a low fat alternative and sprinkle over the cheese.
Cook until tender and brown under a grill if needed.

This recipe is enough for two, so enough for two days or enough to share with a friend.

*Sweating is when you heat the vegetables very gently in a little oil or butter, stirring frequently so that any liquid can evaporate; – it normally results in tender and almost transparent pieces.