This is a lovely casserole for cold days, you can fry the onions, first or just put all in the slow cooker straight away.

I can make six portions out of the ingredients below.

Ingredients

• 700g turnip, potato carrot parsnip cut into large chunks
• 300g onions peeled and sliced into chunks
• 200g-250g mixed red and green lentils
• 500ml cider and 500ml stock
• Mixture of herbs to your preference, plus some for garnish
• 2 bay leaves
• ground pepper
• 3 tablespoon of your preferred vinegar

Instructions

1. Add all the ingredients except vinegar and garnish herbs to slow cooker.
2. Cook in slow cooker for 6-8 hours on low setting.
3. Mix in the vinegar.
4. Serve with garnish on each serving

Vinegar is added at the end, otherwise red lentils will not thicken casserole, and vinegar improves iron absorption.