Vegetable stew

Name: Vegetable stew
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Spanish
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil or rapeseed oil; 1 onion finely chopped; 3 garlic cloves sliced; 1 tsp smoked paprika; ½ tsp ground cumin; 1 tbsp dried thyme; 3 medium carrots (about 200g), sliced; 2 medium celery sticks (about 120g), finely sliced; 1 red pepper chopped; 1 yellow pepper chopped; 2 x 400g cans tomatoes or peeled cherry tomatoes; 1 vegetable stock cube made up to 250ml; 2 courgettes (about 300g), sliced thickly; 2 sprigs fresh thyme; 250g cooked puy lentils (we used Merchant Gourmet ready-to-eat puy lentils)