Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, curried red lentils. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Curried Red Lentils is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Curried Red Lentils is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have curried red lentils using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Curried Red Lentils:
- Get 2 cups red lentils
- Get 1 large onion, diced
- Get 1 tablespoon vegetable / coconut oil
- Make ready 1 can tomato puree (approx. 404 grams)
- Take 1/2 cup frozen petit pois (optional)
- Prepare 2 tablespoon curry paste
- Take 1 tablespoon curry powder
- Take 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Get 1 teaspoon chili powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon white sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- Make ready 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
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Instructions to make Curried Red Lentils:
- Always remember to wash the lentils in cold water until the water runs clear so that it minimises the scum that comes from boiling it.
- Put lentils in a pot with enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Cover the pot, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer.
- Add water during cooking as needed to keep covered, until tender. This takes approximately 15-20mins.
- Once the lentils are done, set aside. - - *At this point, the original recipe calls for a proper draining of the lentils to get rid of access water. However, I opted to keep the water since there wasn’t a lot left in the pot and I prefer to have more gravy to mop up with my bread.
- Mix curry paste, curry powder, turmeric, cumin, chili powder, salt, sugar, garlic & ginger in a bowl and set aside.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onions until they are soft and caramalised.
- Stir spice mixture into the onions. Increase heat to high and cook, stirring constantly until fragrant (approx 2-3 mins).
- Stir in the tomato puree and heat through.
- Remove skillet from heat and stir into the lentils.
- Add in frozen petit pois without thawing and allow the heat from the curried lentils to heat it through.
- Put the pot of lentil & spice mixture back onto the hob and keep it on the lowest heat, stirring occasionally to warm through (about 2-3 minutes) before serving.
Fragrant ginger, curry, cinnamon and cumin. Red lentils, in particular, are quick and easy to cook, perfect for a fast weeknight meal. A quick and easy weeknight curry that's loaded with protein-rich red lentils and baby kale, all made in the Instant. If you've never cooked with red lentils before, you're probably wondering what the yellow stuff is in the above image. I swear my son was nowhere near the plate.
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