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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Bring lentils and water to a boil, with 2 halved garlic cloves and 1/2 white onion. | 2. Reduce heat, then cover and simmer over low heat about 20 minutes or until lentils are tender but not mushy. | 3. Drain and reserve lentil cooking liquid. | 4. At this point, I like to fish out the garlic halves but leave the onion, which breaks down in the lentils. | 5. Season with salt. | 6. Heat oil in large saucepan and saute chopped white onion and the 2 minced garlic cloves until onion is soft. | 7. Add plantain, pineapple and tomatoes; cook until plantain is soft, anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes. | 8. Add lentils and some reserved lentil cooking liquid. | 9. Continue cooking until mixture thickens a little; add more cooking liquid or even some vegetable or chicken broth if necessary so lentils aren't dry. | 10. Serve garnished with fried plantain slices. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
lentil	3/4	cup	dried	61.215	12.7858	5.1744	0.3176
water	4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic	2	cloves		8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
white onion	1/2	halved		32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
vegetable oil	1	tablespoon		117.23200000000001	0.0	0.0	13.6
garlic	2	cloves	minced	8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
white onion	1/2		chopped	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
plantain	1		peeled chopped	218.38	57.0831	2.327	0.6623
pineapple	10	ounces	unsweetened cut	141.7475	37.1945	1.5309	0.3402
tomato	2		ripe peeled seeded chopped	56.58	12.546	2.952	0.49200000000000005
clove	1/4	teaspoon		1.4385	0.344	0.0313	0.0682
allspice	1/2	teaspoon		2.4985	0.6851	0.0579	0.0826

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.