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    French Salted pork with lentils

    Published: Feb 29, 2020 · Updated: Oct 23, 2022 by Bea C. | This post may contain affiliate links | Leave a Comment

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    Salted pork with lentils is a French traditional and popular dish.

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    • 🧾 What is salted pork?
    • 📖 Ingredient notes
    • 🔪 Step by step instructions
    • 🍲 Other French recipes you might like
    • 📋 Recipe / Recette

    This recipe ("petit salé aux lentilles") is a real classic in French family cuisine. For me, it is kind of a comfort dish as it really reminds me of my childhood and the delicious meals my mom cooked then (and still does when we get together).

    So here is her version of this dish. And believe me, the hardest part of this recipe was not preparing the dish in itself but getting it out of my mom's head because she does everything intuitively. So when I asked her to tell me each step of the recipe and the quantities of each ingredient she got completely blocked. But after several attempts we finally got it out and written down!!

    🧾 What is salted pork?

    Salted pork (called "Petit salé" in French which means "little salty") is salt cured pork. Petit salé gets its name and its taste from a pork butcher tradition which consists in salting the pork meat to aid its conservation. Pieces of pork, like the "palette" (shoulder) and bacon, are immersed in a brine, a very salty kind of stock.

    📖 Ingredient notes

    • Salted pork belly. Ask your butcher for salted pork belly.
    • Onions. You can either use yellow or white onions.
    • Bouquet garni. It is a bunch of herbs (rosemary, thyme and bay leaves) used for flavoring stews or soups. In France, you can buy bouquets garnis already prepared for you at the grocery store or at the market. But you can also make your own bouquet garni. For example, you can use 6 bay leaves, about 5 small thyme branches and one rosemary branch. Do not hesitate to adjust the herbs quantities to your own taste. The making of a bouquet garni is not an exact science!
    • Carrots. Use fresh carrots.
    • Lentils. This recipe is traditionally made with green lentils.

    For the quantities and complete list of ingredients for this paleo pumpkin muffin recipe, please see the recipe below.

    🔪 Step by step instructions

    1. Rince the salted pork belly with cold water to remove excess salt
    2. Pour the water in a large Dutch oven (or equivalent)
    3. Peel one onion and put it in the Dutch oven. Add the pork and bouquet garni. Bring to a boil and let it cook for about 1h30 minutes or until the meat is tender.
    4. Peel the carrots and the second onion and cut them roughly.
    5. Rince the green lentils with cold water then transfer them to a saucepan with 5 times their volume of cold water. Add the carrots and onion. Bring to a boil and let it cook for 20 to 25 minutes or until lentils are tender. And voilà your salted pork with lentils is ready to be served! You can serve this with Dijon mustard if you want, as it is traditionally done here in France.

    🍲 Other French recipes you might like

    • Pot au feu recipe (classic French beef stew)
    • French Pistou Soup (AIP, paleo, vegan)
    • French veal stew (AIP, paleo, whole30)
    • Chicken rillettes (French potted chicken spread)

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    📋 Recipe / Recette

    French Salted pork with lentils

    Author: Bea C.
    An easy to make French traditional comfort dish!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 1 hr 30 mins
    Total Time 1 hr 40 mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine French
    Servings 4 servings
    Calories 1853 kcal

    Ingredients
     

    • 2.6 pounds salted pork belly (1.2 kg) 
    • 118  fl oz (14 cups) water (3.5 L)
    • 2 onions
    • 1 bouquet garni (a bunch of rosemary, thyme and bay leaves)
    • 3 carrots
    • 11 oz green lentils (about 300g) 

    Instructions
     

    • Rince the salted pork belly with cold water to remove excess salt
    • Pour the water in a large Dutch oven.
    • Peel one onion and put it in the Dutch oven. Add the pork and bouquet garni. Bring to a boil and let it cook for about 1h30 minutes or until the meat is tender.
    • Peel the carrots and the second onion and cut them roughly.
    • Rince the green lentils with cold water then transfer them to a saucepan with 5 times their volume of cold water. Add the carrots and onion. Bring to a boil and let it cook for 20 to 25 minutes or until lentils are tender. And voilà! Serve with Dijon mustard.
      Bon appétit !

    Notes

    Please keep in mind that the nutritional information is calculated using a nutrition facts calculator. It is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

    Nutrition facts per serving

    Calories: 1853kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 49gFat: 158gSaturated Fat: 57gPolyunsaturated Fat: 17gMonounsaturated Fat: 73gCholesterol: 212mgSodium: 179mgPotassium: 1570mgFiber: 27gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 7986IUVitamin C: 13mgCalcium: 182mgIron: 11mg
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