One-Pot Sweet Potato Lentil Stew

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup dry lentils

  soaked for 8 hours if desired
• 1 yellow onion

  finely chopped
• 1 sweet potato

  large, peeled and chopped into bite sized pieces
• 2 carrots

  peeled and sliced into bite sized pieces
• 4 cups vegetable broth

  may need up to 6 cups
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 3 cloves garlic

  peeled and minced
• 1 cup fresh spinach

  packed
• 2 tomatoes

  chopped
• ½ tsp smoked paprika
• 4 bay leaves
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp ground black pepper
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• ¼ cup fresh parsley

Instructions

• 1 Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.
• 2 Add the sliced carrots and saute until slightly golden.
• 3 Add the onion and garlic and sauté with the carrot until tender.
• 4 Add the chopped tomatoes and bay leaves and saute until the tomato is softened
  and the bay leaf is fragrant.
• 5 Add the sweet potato and spinach leaves.
• 6 Next, add the soaked lentils.
• 7 Add seasoning and spices—smoked paprika, dried oregano, fresh parsley
• 8 Add 4 cups of vegetable broth. (You can add up to 2 additional cups of broth if
  the stew becomes too thick for your liking.)
• 9 Cook the stew for 30–40 minutes, until the sweet potatoes are tender.

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