Lentil stew with sausages is a cheap but very tasty and simple dish. Lentil soup is also said to bring good luck and protect against financial difficulties in the New Year. At least for this reason lentil stew is eaten in Italy and also in America on New Year’s Eve!

Ingredients for 4 persons

• 250 g of plate lentils
• 500 grams of potatoes
• 3 – 4 tsp vegetable broth

• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 small onion
• 1 heaped tbsp tomato paste
• 1 stalk of celery
• 1 bay leaf
• Approx. 300 g Vienna sausages (3 – 4 pieces)
• about 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar
• Salt, pepper, and some sugar

Side dishes for the lentil soup

Farmhouse bread or a rye or grain roll

Preparation of lentil stew with sausages

Peel the onion and chop finely. Rinse the lentils. Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion in it until translucent. Stir in the tomato paste and sauté briefly. Add about 1 ½ l of water, the broth, the bay leaf, and the lentils, and bring everything to a boil briefly. Then cover everything and cook over low heat for about 25 minutes.

Meanwhile, trim the celery, reserving some of the greens for garnish. Wash the celery and cut it into small pieces. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into small cubes, add both to the lentils and cook for another 20 minutes at low heat.

Cut the Vienna sausages into small slices and add them to the soup about 5 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Season to taste with vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar. Garnish with the remaining greens and serve.

Useful additional knowledge

To give this dish an even more special touch, you can also fry bacon, which you fry together with the onion, then follow the same steps as described above. The soup also tastes a little different from other sausages. B. Take Mettwurst or Italian Salccicia sausages. The same applies to this delicious dish: it usually tastes better warmed up!