Lentil & Brown Rice with Caramelized Onion

A simple, filling one-pot of lentils, rice, and slow-cooked onion.

4 servings

An original recipe. The dish is ours, so you will not find it in a food database. Each ingredient below is a real USDA FoodData Central food, and every nutrition number is calculated from those records.

Ingredients

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Servings

Cooked lentilsLentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt300 g
Cooked brown riceRice, brown, long-grain, cooked200 g
OnionOnions, raw150 g
GarlicGarlic, raw10 g
Olive oilOil, olive, salad or cooking21 g

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Method

1Cook the onion slowly in olive oil until deep gold.
2Fold in the lentils and rice with garlic; warm through and finish with black pepper.

Suited to: Type 2 diabetes, Dyslipidemia / CVD risk, Overweight / obesity, Diverticular disease