Delicious Lentil Toast From Canned Lentils With Sausage

Lentils are a widely popular dish in the Czech Republic. Usually we make them sour in a kind of lentil-vinegar sauce or in a form of thick lentil soup. And the latter has inspired this dish. You can get canned lentils with sausage in any shop and have a ready-made meal or you can use them to make something better. This toast is a reinvention of the typical Czech lentil soup.

Czech lentil soup has several crucial ingredients which you just cannot skip:

- lentils

- sausage or smoked meat

- garlic

- onion

- carrot

- bread to accompany the meal, sometimes in the form of topinka

And so I used the following ingredients (serves 2)

- canned pre-boiled lentils with sausage

- 1 clove of garlic

- 1 smaller onion

- 1 small carrot

- 2 slices of bread

- 2 tbsp of olive oil

I decided to fry the bread to make it like the Czech topinka which will make the toast even more delicious.

Pour half the oil into the pan and heat it to high temperature. Place the sliced of bread in the pan, press them with a spatula and fry until they're golden. Then flip them and fry the other side as well.

Garlic is very important in Czecg lentil dishes, you don't need much of it and it gives the meal that extra something. So what I did is that I rubbed the clove of garlic onto the fried bread. If you're a big fan of garlic, go for it, crush the garlic and smear the bread with it.

Chop the onion, fry it on the pan with a little oil until golden. The spread it evenly over the toast.

Heat the lentil with sausage in the same pan and on the toast with it!

Slice the carrot thin and fry it again. And - you guessed it - put it on the toast. Usually we grate the carrot for the lentil soup before frying it. Here I decided to slice it because it just looks nicer on the toast.

Serve hot and enjoy!