Sausages And Lentils

Ingredients:

• Sausages x 6
• Bacon rashers x 4
• Onion chopped
• Leak chopped
• Olive oil 2 x tbsn
• garlic tsn
• Chillie tsn
• Fresh thyme tsn  chopped
• Fresh rosemary tsn  chopped
• Tinned lentils x2
• Water 600ml  (1 1/2 empty lentil tins)
• Chicken stock powder heaped tsp
• Bay leaves x 2
• Tomatoes x 4
• Parsley to garnish

Method:

1. Cook the sausages and bacon, chop up the cooked sausages and bacon into bite sized bits and set aside.
2. Put olive oil in pan and heat up then gently cook onion and leak for 10 minutes (add garlic and chilli if so inclined after five minutes). Add thyme and rosemary in last 2 minutes of cooking.
3. Add Drained and rinsed lentils, water, chicken stock, tomatoes, sausages, bacon and bay leaves to the onion mixture and rinse lentils then add to onions.
4. Continue cook for 15 min to 20 mins till tomatoes almost dissolved.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle parsley over top to garnish and serve with crusty bread and salad