Joe Red meat’s Lentils Esteem Baked Beans

Creator Notes

This version of baked beans, from Montreal’s Joe Red meat restaurant, dials attend the sugar so we are able to taste all the pieces else. The utilization of lentils, importantly, also manner that these baked “beans” cook dinner in a a part of the time. Recipe from The Art of Residing In accordance with Joe Red meat (Ten Velocity Press, 2011) —Genius Recipes

Ingredients

• 
  4
  

  slices bacon, finely diced
  

• 
  1
  

  onion, finely chopped
  

• 
  ¹/₂ teaspoon
  
  minced garlic
  
• 
  2 cups
  
  crimson lentils, picked over and rinsed
  
• 
  4 cups
  
  water
  
• 
  ¹/₄ cup
  
  ketchup
  
• 
  2 tablespoons
  
  maple syrup, plus more as needed
  
• 
  2 tablespoons
  
  fair oil, worship grapeseed, vegetable, or canola
  
• 
  1 tablespoon
  
  cider vinegar, plus more as needed
  
• 
  2 tablespoons
  
  Colman’s dry mustard
  
• 
  1 teaspoon
  
  freshly ground shadowy pepper, plus more as needed
  
• 
  1
  

  bay leaf
  

• Salt