This is another one of those meals that you could make with or without meat. It was a giant bowl of food (GBOF) which is always good. Since the lentils take around a half an hour to cook, we added some sauteed turkey sausage and onions, carrots, garlic and celery when we put the lentils on to cook and then we added some more along with other vegetables with about 10 minutes until done. This way there is flavor in the lentils and the broth (we cooked it in chicken broth but this could be vegetable broth) and also fresh crisp flavors when it’s time to eat the stew. As far as what other vegetables to put in, that depends on what you’ve got left over in your refrigerator. I served this stew with a low calorie non-alcoholic O’Doul’s and it was very satisfying.

Lentils with smoked turkey sausage and vegetables