At New Year's Eve, during the Christmas holidays, in winter but not only. Lentils are a nutritious and tasty food to try in the Christmas period but also "out of season": they are available all year round and really versatile, as well as being a casket of fiber, vitamins and minerals.

Native to the Middle East, lentil is a legume grown for thousands of years (about 10,000), which has become popular and widely consumed wherever it is established, even in Italian cuisine. Here are the top ten recipes with lentils that offers Sale & Pepe, to be made at home for you or your guests.

You can use lentils for delicious appetizers, excellent alternative to the classic dish of lentils and stewed Cotechino: if you have lentils, polenta and cotechino in glasses from finger food, decorating with some bay leaf, here you can open your menu with an innovative and appetizing touch.

To prepare for lunch or dinner, lentils are perfect stewed or with soups, but also lend themselves to unusual first courses. In addition to traditional lentil soup, but here we offer you the smell of cumin and lemon, you can try the aromatic soup with pioppini mushrooms, to warm up the cold days with the smells of the forest. If you cook lentils with i rigatoni with sausage skewers, pasta becomes a rich dish that can be transformed into a tasty single dish.

For the latter you can space: you will make vegetarians happy with thelentil burgers in yellow sauce, made from the combination of yogurt and saffron. For carnivores, the Roll with lentils it is a little more elaborate preparation that will give you satisfaction, making you feel like a test-cook (and it will also make the diners happy!). Or prepare a savory pie from the super rich filling with the recipe of the Lentils puff pastry, duck breast and myrtle.

For our recipes you can use canned lentils, already cooked, more practical and faster to cook, but also and above all dried lentils. The latter, compared to canned ones, are free of preservatives and richer in nutrients. The lentils are legumes rather easy to cook: if you dip them in plenty of cold water, which covers them completely, cooking on a sweet flame their nutritive properties can be preserved.

Discover the ten recipes with lentils that we have selected for you: delight with this special ingredient of our kitchen.