Saturday, May 10, 2014

Part 2: Production Day!

Shopping List for 48 servings
~ 1 pint olive oil
~ small bag of cumin
~ 4 lbs. onion
~ 4 bags lentils
~ 2-3 heads garlic

Ingredients from grocery shopping.  We ended up using 2 heads of garlic and used cayenne pepper and salt from our kitchen since the stew didn't call for much of either. 

Used the Ninja to incrementally chop our 4 lbs. of onions.

Stephanie peeling and cutting the tips off garlic before putting in the Ninja.

Garlic minced very quickly in the Ninja.

Mise en place.

Cami and Nicole checking the onions post-roasting.

Cami stirring the garlic-cumin mixture.

Nicole adding the salt to the finished stew.  Two pots were needed to hold all the stew.  After deliberating on the best way to divide the stew between 2 pots, we went with a 5:7 ratio of ingredients.


Does it taste good?

Yes, it's delicious!

Time for clean-up.

We poured the stew into smaller containers to facilitate faster cooling.


Fridge full of lentil stew with knives to help conduct heat away.