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Pasta With Red Pepper And Lentil Sauce

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Sami Archive, Digest, Fatfree, Mar95 1 Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2 c Dried lentils
4 c Water
2 Bay leaves
1 1/2 c Diced onions
2 Cloves garlic, minced <I use
Considerably more, at least
4 or 5>
1 T Dried basil
1/4 c Plus 2 tablespoons burgandy
Or other red wine
2 c Chopped sweet red bell
Peppers
1 t Balsamic vinegar
1 Salt to taste
1 Freshly ground black pepper
2 1/2 oz Uncooked pasta per person
1/4 c Freshly chopped basil for
Garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

Rinse and sort lentils, boil the 4 cups water, add lentils and bay
leaves, simmer until lentils are tender but have not lost their  shape.
Strain and remove the bay leaves.  Combine onions, garlic, and dried
basil and braise them in the red  wine. Seed, core and choip the red
peppers and add to the onions.  Let them stew with the onions until
they are soft, about 25 to 30  minutes.  Then transfer these veggies to
a blender or food processor  and puree til smooth. Stir the lentils
into the sauce, <do not puree  the lentils>  Add vinegar, add salt and
pepper to taste.  Cook pasta according to package directions, <no salt
or oil> to al  dente. Drain and serve with save.  Garnish with chopped
basil.  Serving size - 1/2 cup sauce + 1 cup pasta - 345 calories 0.9
grams  total fat, 0.1 grams sat fat, 0 milligrams cholesterol  Source:
From Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease  Posted to
Fatfree Digest, Tue, 03 Aug 93 11:55:00 PDT By Jan Gordon
<jagordon@AGSM.UCLA.EDU>  Individual recipes copyrighted by originator.
FATFREE Recipe  collections copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1995.
Formatted by Sue Smith,  SueSmith9@aol.com using MMCONV. Archived
through kindness of Karen  Mintzias, km@salata.com.  1.80á  File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/fatfreex.zip

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
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Calories: 416
Calories From Fat: 24
Total Fat: 2.8g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Sodium: 1269.3mg
Potassium: 2278.9mg
Carbohydrates: 86.9g
Fiber: 28.3g
Sugar: 36.1g
Protein: 21.8g


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