Lentil curry
A delicious fragrant combination of lentils
Voorbereiding 10 minutes mins
Bereiding 30 minutes mins
Totale tijd 40 minutes mins
Course: Main Course, Main dish
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: curry, Indian, lentils, spicy, vegan
Porties: 0
- 400 gr boiled lentils from a jar
- 3 tomatoes
- 3 carrots
- 1 red bell pepper
- 150 gr tomato paste
- 2 medium white onions
- 2,5 cm ginger
- 3 tbsp vegetable yogurt
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 chili
- salt and pepper
- 1 tsp garam massala
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp ground cumin seeds
- 1 tsp coriander seed
- 1 tsp red curry (paste or spice powder)
Saute chopped onion in some oil. After a few minutes, add the garlic and grated ginger. Let simmer for another 5 minutes.
Add diced carrots and diced bell pepper to the onion garlic mixture.
Toast the coriander and cumin seeds in a dry frying pan. Keep shaking the pan. After a few minutes, your whole kitchen will smell exotic and the job will be done. Mix the roasted herbs with the unroasted herbs in a mortar and mash them well.
In the meantime, make a sauce from the roasted and crushed herbs, the tomato puree and the yogurt.
Add the sauce to the vegetables in the frying pan and toss. Add 50 ml of water.
Simmer for 15 minutes, add lentils, heat through for another 5 minutes, add salt to taste.