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Secret Lentil Bolognese
Rich, saucy and packed with hidden veg.
⏱️ 10 min🔥 25 min cooking🍽️ Serves 4Medium🧑🍳 Grown-up helper needed⚠️ Contains: Wheat (pasta)
What you need
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 carrot, grated
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 tin green lentils, drained
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- Pasta for four
What you do
- Grown-up: soften the onion and carrot in a pan for 5 minutes.
- Add tomatoes, lentils, purée and oregano.
- Simmer for 20 minutes, stirring now and then.
- Cook the pasta.
- Mix together and taste — add salt and pepper.
Top tip: Grate in a courgette too. Nobody will notice.