Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, curried red lentils. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Curried Red Lentils:
- Prepare 2 cups red lentils
- Make ready 1 large onion, diced
- Prepare 1 tablespoon vegetable / coconut oil
- Prepare 1 can tomato puree (approx. 404 grams)
- Prepare 1/2 cup frozen petit pois (optional)
- Get 2 tablespoon curry paste
- Prepare 1 tablespoon curry powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Take 1 teaspoon chili powder
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 teaspoon white sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- Prepare 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.
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