Vegetable stew recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil or rapeseed oil
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves sliced
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• ½ tsp ground cumin
• 1 tbsp dried thyme
• 3 medium carrots (about 200g), sliced
• 2 medium celery sticks (about 120g), finely sliced
• 1 red pepper chopped
• 1 yellow pepper chopped
• 2 x 400g cans tomatoes or peeled cherry tomatoes
• 1 vegetable stock cube made up to 250ml
• 2 courgettes (about 300g), sliced thickly
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme
• 250g cooked puy lentils (we used Merchant Gourmet ready-to-eat puy lentils)