Snobby Joes; because they're just better...

Ahhh comfort food, and you can feel good about it because it’s good for you! I stumbled upon this one, found on the The Post Punk Kitchen page; awesome site, love their stuff. PPK pulled from the Veganomicon cookbook.

From Veganomicon: Every vegan cookbook needs a sloppy joe recipe with the name changed around a bit, right? Well, this is ours. Those sloppy joes we loved as a child but made with lentils. Snobby Joe thinks he’s better than all the other Joes because he doesn’t have any meat.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup uncooked lentils
• 4 cups water
• 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil or Olive Oil
• 1 med yellow onion, diced small
• 1 green pepper, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 Tbsp chili powder
• 2 tsp oregano
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 8 oz can tomato sauce
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• 3 Tbsp maple syrup (the real kind)
• 1 Tbsp yellow mustard (wet mustard)

4 to 6 kaiser rolls or sesame buns

Directions:
Put the lentils in a small sauce pot and pour in 4 cups water. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, until lentils are soft. Drain and set aside.

About 10 minutes before the lentils are done boiling, preheat a medium soup pot over medium heat. Sautee the onion and pepper in the oil for about 7 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and sautee a minute more.

Add the cooked lentils, the chili powder, oregano and salt and mix. Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste. Cook for about 10 minutes. Add the maple syrup and mustard and heat through.

Turn the heat off an let sit for about 10 minutes, so that the flavors can meld, or go ahead and eat immediately if you can’t wait. I like to serve the se open faced, with a scoop of snooby joe on each slice of the bun – oh, so good