How to Make Any-night-of-the-week Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce

Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce.

You can cook Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce

1. It's 1 can of lentils or 1 cup dried lentils, soaked and boiled.
2. It's 400 gms of fresh italian sauages, casing removed and broken into bite size pieces.
3. Prepare 1 of large onion diced.
4. It's 1 stalk of celery chopped - optional.
5. You need 3 of garlic cloves chopped.
6. You need 1/2 can of chopped tomatoes or 3 medium size tomatoes chopped.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder or 2-3 italian red chillies.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of red wine (optional).
10. It's to taste of Salt and Pepper.
11. You need 1 of bay leaf- optional, parsley to garnish.

Italian Sausages in Lentil sauce step by step

1. On medium heat, place a deep bottom pan, when hot, add oil, sausages, cook until sausages are browned, add onions, celery and garlic and cook another 5 minutes, add red wine and cook until the alcohol evaporates about 2-3 minutes..
2. Now add tomatoes, continue cooking for another 5 minutes, add lentils, bayleaf, bring to a boil cover and cook for 10 minutes on low heat, check for seasoning, turn heat off, and let it rest for 10 minutes..
3. Serve with pasta of your choice or with potato dumplings or just plain sour dough bread, enjoy!!!.