Continental Lentil Toad-in-the-Hole

Ingredients

• 4oz continental lentils, cooked (boil for 20mins from dry)
• 4 tbsp oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 4oz sliced mushrooms
• thyme
• salt
• pepper
• 4oz self-raising flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 pint milk

Method

• Preheat oven to 220C (or just as hot as it will go if it's Roo's!)
  
• Make up the batter: make a well in the middle of the flour, crack in eggs and beat in, slowly add milk to avoid lumps
• Heat up 2tbsp of the oil in the dish you're going to use, in the oven
  
• Soften the onion and garlic in 2tbsp oil, then add the mushrooms
  
• Stir in the lentils, thyme, salt and pepper
• Pour batter into the preheated dish, then pour the lentil mixture on top
• Cook for 25mins until golden brown, puffed up and gorgeous

Variations

If you want sausages too, just add them to the pan before pouring the batter in. And what about a bit of cheese on top at the end? Nice bit of emmenthal... or gruyere... yet to be tested!