Barbecue ‘Baked’ Lentils

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By Joe Yonan

This lentil-focused instrumentality connected baked beans tin beryllium the basal for galore meals passim the week: tacos, atom bowls, burritos, Sloppy Joes and more. Make this rapidly successful the Instant Pot, dilatory successful a dilatory cooker, oregon successful a Dutch oven.

Leftover lentils volition support tightly sealed successful the refrigerator for 5 days oregon successful the freezer for 6 months.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10 (makes astir 4 1/2 cups)

1 1/2 cups dried ample greenish oregon brownish lentils (not the tiny French du Puy), rinsed
3 cups homemade oregon store-bought low-sodium rootlike stock, positive much arsenic needed
3 ail cloves, chopped
1 cupful chopped yellowish bulb (1/2 large)
2 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoonful molasses
1 tablespoonful smoked oregon saccharine paprika
1 1/2 teaspoons chili pulverization (may substitute crushed ancho chile)
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, positive much to taste
1/2 spoon crushed cumin
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, positive much to taste
Chopped chives oregon scallions, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

Calories
182
Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
33 g
Sodium
542 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
11 g
Sugar
9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Simply Laura Lea” by Laura Lea (Blue Hills Press, 2020).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published June 6, 2020

Updated March 16, 2026