Recipe of Speedy Cajun pork and lentils

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cajun pork and lentils. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cajun pork and lentils is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cajun pork and lentils is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cajun pork and lentils using 28 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cajun pork and lentils:

1. Make ready lentils
2. Make ready pork spare ribs strips, cut in small pieces
3. Take pork fat
4. Get jon cajun seasoning
5. Prepare salt
6. Prepare garlic powder
7. Take onion powder
8. Get smoked paprika
9. Make ready paprika powder
10. Get ground black pepper
11. Prepare cayenne pepper
12. Get thyme leaves
13. Take dry oregano leaves
14. Make ready cumin powder
15. Prepare Mexican chili powder
16. Prepare other ingredients
17. Take diced onions
18. Get diced red peppers
19. Take diced green pepper
20. Get diced carrots
21. Get diced celery
22. Get chopped tomatoes or chunky tomato sauce
23. Prepare minced garlic cloves
24. Take Cajun seasoning
25. Prepare diced potato
26. Prepare white wine
27. Get + 1 cup. water
28. Make ready salt

Steps to make Cajun pork and lentils:

1. Check the lentils for stones or any foreign objects. - Place the lentils in a container, cover with plenty water and let them soak for a couple hours. - In a bowl mix all the spices for the Cajun seasoning. - Pad dry the ribs with paper towel and mix with 2½ teaspoons Cajun seasoning. Let them marinate for 1 hour. Save the rest of the seasoning for other Cajun recipes.
2. Cut the vegetables and measure the rest of the ingredients. - Heat up at moderate temperature a large frying pan and melt the pork fat. When some of the fat becomes brown, remove and reserve. - Place the ribs in the frying pan and brown them on both sides. Remove to a deep pot.
3. Add to the frying pan onion, garlic and brown them, trying to lose any particles sticking on the pan. - Add the rest of the vegetables, brown pieces of pork fat and sweat them for 3 minutes. - Add 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning and cook for 1 minute. Add the vegetables and tomatoes to the pot with the ribs.
4. Deglaze the frying pan with the wine or water and add to the ribs. - Incorporate the water, bring it to a boil, lower the flame and let the ribs cook slowly for 45 minutes. - Drain the soaking lentils. Add lentils, potatoes to ribs in the pot. - Let boil the liquid, lower the flame and cook slowly for 25 to 30 minutes or until lentils are soft.
5. Serve the soup with a bit chopped tomatoes and cilantro on top.

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