Crock Pot Pasta With Lentils And Chard
Total Time: 7 hrs 15 mins
Preparation Time: 7 hrs
Cook Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 6
- 12 ounces swiss chard
- 1 cup lentils, rinsed, drained
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced, pressed your choice
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed, coarsely crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/8 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 2 cups water
- 12 ounces dry linguine
- salt
- 6 ounces neufchatel cheese, room temperature
- grated parmesan cheese (optional)
Recipe
- 1 rinse and drain chard well. trim off coarse stem ends; then cut stems crosswise into 1/4-inch-wide strips and set aside.
- 2 cover chard leaves and refrigerate.
- 3 in a 3-quart or larger electric cooker, combine chard stems,lentils, onion, garlic, cumin seeds, red pepper flakes, and black pepper.
- 4 pour in water. cover and cook at low setting until lentils are tender when mashed with a fork (6 to 7 hours).
- 5 cut chard leaves crosswise into 1/2-inch-wide strips; stir into cooker.
- 6 increase heat setting to high; cover and cook until chard is wilted and bright green (about 15 minutes more).
- 7 meanwhile, in a 5 to 6-quart pan, cook linguine in 3 quarts boiling water just until tender to bite (10 to 12 minutes); or cook according to package directions. drain well, pour into a warm wide 4-quart bowl.
- 8 season lentil sauce to taste with salt.
- 9 add lentil sauce and neufchatel cheese to linquine, mix lightly to coat well.
- 10 offer parmesan cheese to add taste, if desired.
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