
Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, simple red lentil curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Simple red lentil curry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Simple red lentil curry is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simple red lentil curry using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Simple red lentil curry:
- Take 300 grams red lentils
- Make ready 200 ml coconut cream
- Get 1 white onion, finely chopped
- Get 3 gloves of garlic
- Get 2.5 cm fresh ginger
- Take Half teaspoon turmeric powder
- Take Half teaspoon cumin powder
- Take 1 teaspoon corriandar powder
- Make ready 2 green finger sized chillies
- Take 2 cloves
- Take 2 cardamoms
- Make ready Half teaspoon black peppers
- Take Salt
- Take 1 table spoon tomato paste
- Get Lemon wedges to serve
- Take Fresh mint leaves for garnish
- Prepare as needed Butter or ghee
Steps to make Simple red lentil curry:
- Melt butter/ghee in the pot. Fry onions until they change colour. Put ginger and garlics and chillies in food processor or chopper. Add ginger and garlic and chillies to pot. Saute few seconds until you feel the aroma.
- Add cloves,cardamoms turmeric, cumin and corriandar and saute few seconds. Wash and drain red lentils two times and add them to the pot.
- Add tomato paste, salt and enought water. Bring it to boil. Cover the pot until lentils half cooked(about 10 minutes). Add coconut cream. Continue simmering for another 30 minutes. Add black pepper.Discard cardamoms and cloves. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve with naan or plain steamed rice and lemon wedges.I did not have fresh mint at home. That is why I used dried mint as you see in the photo.
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