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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Argentine

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place lentils in a saucepan with cold water to cover. Cook over a high heat until boiling, then boil for 10 minutes. | 2. In another frying pan brown the beef mince. Once browned add the onion, celery, carrot and the garlic. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes and stir in tomatoes. | 3. Drain lentils and reserve 300ml (1 1/4 cups) of the cooking liquid. If not enough cooking liquid top up with hot water. | 4. Add lentils to meat mixture, then dissolve the vegemite in the cooking liquid and stir into meat mixture. | 5. Add bay leaf and bring mixture back to the boil, lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes. | 6. Meanwhile make the topping. | 7. Place potato and parsnip in a saucepan and cover with water (lightly salted if you desire). | 8. Bring to the boil and cook for about 15 minutes or until tender. | 9. Drain into a bowl and mash together with the yoghurt and the chives. | 10. Preheat the grill (Broiler). | 11. Remove bay leaf from meat mixture and divide the mixture among 4 2 cup capacity ramekins. | 12. Spoon or pipe the potato/parsnip mash over the top and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. | 13. Place under the griller for a few minutes or until the potato topping is nicely golden. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
green lentil	1	cup		5673.75	0.0	1262.25	31.875
cold water				-	-	-	-
beef mince	225			5673.75	0.0	1262.25	31.875
onion	1		diced	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
celery rib	2		diced	5673.75	0.0	1262.25	31.875
carrot	1		diced	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
garlic clove	1		chopped	5673.75	0.0	1262.25	31.875
tomato	1	can	chopped	40.2099	8.6898	1.9658	0.4468
vegemite	2	teaspoons		5673.75	0.0	1262.25	31.875
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
potato	450		peeled cut	-	-	-	-
parsnip	450		peeled cut	44887.5	10767.015	718.2	179.55
plain yogurt	4	tablespoons	low-fat	-	-	-	-
chive	3	tablespoons	chopped	2.7	0.3915	0.2943	0.0657
parmesan cheese	4	teaspoons	grated	24.6667	2.6667	2.6667	0.3333

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