Recipe for Sausage and Lentils with Fried Sage

This classic dish of Sausage and Lentils with Fried Sage is a meal I'd always find comforting!

(Updated with better photos and added to Recipe Favorites, October 2011)  I first made this comforting dish of Sausage and Lentils with Fried Sage back in 2006.  That recipe definitely needed an update, so recently Jake and I made it again to take new photos and we also enjoyed eating it!  The recipe was inspired by one in The Silver Spoon, a classic Italian cookbook that I think every serious cook should own.  The addition of fried sage was my idea after seeing it on restaurant menus, and the fried sage was a wonderful addition to this dish.  Sage is something I have growing abundantly for most of the year, and when you fry it the sage flavor intensifies just a bit as the leaves are transformed into crispy morsels of sage-flavored goodness.  But if you like Italian Sausage and Lentils but don't have fresh sage, this dish would still be very good without the sage. 

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