Juicing + Sloppy Lentils

This weekend I decided to utilize my crock pot.  Why don’t I use this genius invention more often?? It’s so easy to make something delicious with little to no effort.

Friday night while Erik and I were out, my crock pot made us sloppy lentils.  I saw this recipe, or something similar to it, floating around some blogs recently and bookmarked one of them for a time such as this.

I was really happy with the results.  I think next time I might sub half of the lentils for black beans, though. Lentils are so fiber packed it’s almost a little much in my opinion.  I adapted this recipe.

Sloppy Lentils

Ingredients:

• 2 cups water
• 1 cup dry lentils, rinsed
• 1 small chopped onion
• 15 oz can diced tomatoes (drained),
• 1 (6 oz) can tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 3 tablespoons agave nectar
• 1 Tbsp white vinegar
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions:

• Throw all ingredients in a crock pot, cook on low for approximately five hours. Serve with bun and  side of choice.

And it made for awesome easy leftovers the next day:

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