Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mushroom and lentil pâté. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mushroom and lentil pâté is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Mushroom and lentil pâté is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mushroom and lentil pâté using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mushroom and lentil pâté:

1. Get 250 g mushrooms (i used chestnut) chopped
2. Get 8-10 dried mushrooms soaked in warm water
3. Take 150 g red lentils
4. Get 2 bay leaves
5. Prepare 1 celery stick
6. Prepare 1 clove garlic finely chopped
7. Take 1 sprig thyme leaves
8. Prepare Half a packet of cooked chestnuts
9. Get 1/2 lemon zested and juiced
10. Get Seasoning
11. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil (plus extra for frying)

Instructions to make Mushroom and lentil pâté:

1. Soak the dried mushrooms for at least 20 mins in warm water. Then drain the liquid into a jug (this is the start of your stock) squeezing the moisture out of the mushrooms. Finely chop the mushrooms set aside.
2. Top the jug of mushroom liquid up to 375ml and add to a saucepan with the bay leaves and lentils. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 15 minutes, until the lentils are cooked. Set aside to cool.
3. Meanwhile finely chop the onion, garlic and celery And gently fry off in a pan with the soaked mushrooms and thyme leaves. Then add the fresh mushrooms and fry until soft.
4. Once cooked, set aside to cool, before putting in a blender with the chestnuts. Blitz until finely chopped.
5. Then stir into the cooked lentils with the lemon zest, Lemon juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Once mixed, put in the fridge to solidify slightly. Serve with whatever you fancy.

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