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Beat the heat with your slow cooker during the summer with this lentil stew! It’s clean, vegan and only takes 5 ingredients. Just throw all the ingredients into your slow cooker and let it do all the work without heating up the house!
July Recipe Redux time! The theme for this month is all about beating the heat.
Beat the Heat with the Slow Cooker/Instant Pot/Pressure Cooker
Whether you go slow or fast, just don’t turn on the oven. Show us how to keep the kitchen cool by using one of these appliances: Slow cooker, instant pot, pressure cooker.
I can definitely relate to why people don’t want to turn on the oven during the hot summer months, particularly if you don’t have any air conditioning. Here it’s usually over 100 degrees and super humid. So, I often just want something really cool to eat (watermelon and salads I am looking at you haha).
However, occasionally, I’ll still want a hot meal. This is particularly the case for lunch. I am often freezing in the office, or while operating so I tend to drink a lot of hot coffee and want hot food to warm up!
This recipe that I’ve got for you today can be made stove top, in or the slow cooker. Slow cookers are amazing for their ability to just throw ingredients in, turn it on and leave it to do it’s magic! If you don’t have a slow cooker, or don’t use one frequently I think you should for sure invest in one!
Once you realize how much you like them, go ahead and check out the other slow cooker (or pressure cooker/rice cooker) recipes that my fellow reduxer’s came up with to beat the heat!
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Lentil Bean and Collard Greens Stew [Clean, Vegan, GF]
Ingredients
- 1 cup lentils
- 1 cup black beans
- 1/2 onion diced
- few dashes creole seasoning
- 1 can collard greens
- 4 cups water/broth of choice
Instructions
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Chop onion
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Add all ingredients except for the collard greens into the slow cooker.
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Cook on high for at least 6-8 hours or until all ingredients are cooked through, adding the collard greens for the last half hour or so.
Recipe Notes
I used about 1 T creole seasoning. Feel free to adjust to taste, and/or add it in at the end.
I link up with Deborah and Sarah’s, and the fit foodie mama’s Meatless Monday, #recipeoftheweek,Homestead Blog Hop, glutenfreefridays, #healthyveganfridays, What’s for Dinner, Sunday Fitness and Food, GraciousPantry, Kriska Marie
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Love that there are only five ingredients! Makes dinner even easier!
For sure!
Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner Link up!
Haven’t tried cooking lentils yet, but yours really look so yummy! Oh and I love watermelons too!
Thank you for sharing it over at Food Friday! Excited to see what you’ll be sharing next!
Lentils are great! Definitely give them a try. Thanks for having me 🙂
I love lentils! I have not used my crock pot for a few months. Thanks for the reminder
Anytime 😉
I thought I was the only one who was crazy enough to crave hot meals in the middle of the summer! This recipe looks like a delicious addition to my meatless dinner (or lunch) menu!!!
I’m glad I’m not the only one too!
Love your memes AND the lentil stew looks great. My husband just asked me why I never make lentils. Gonna try this one on him!
Haha thanks so much!
I’m all about simple and keeping the house cool! Looks fabulous – I definitely pinned to try!
Thanks!!
It’s been so long since I’ve had lentils! Looks delicious!
Lentils are so yummy and easy as long as they cook through haha. Thanks!
Thanks for reminding me that the crockpot is a good thing to use in the summer I always think of it for fall and winter meals! Hope you’re staying cool in that hot and humid weather you have.
Thanks! I’m trying to!
I love your fun post with the addition of the awesome pictures.
Thanks!