Easy Red Lentil Dhal Curry
Red Lentil Dhal Curry- Our favourite vegetarian, gluten free healthy comfort food dinner. Made with fragrant spices and only using Aldi ingredients! Easy, healthy, comforting.
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Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons (2 tablespoons) olive oil, or vegetable oil
- thumb size piece of ginger
- 1 (1) yellow onion, chopped
- 4 cloves (4 cloves) garlic, grated
- 3 tablespoons (3 tablespoons) Thai red curry paste
- 1 ½ tablespoons (1 ½ tablespoons) curry powder
- 2 teaspoon (2 teaspoon) turmeric
- 1 ½ teaspoons (1 ½ teaspoons) cumin
- 200 g (1 cups) red lentils, rinsed
- ½ (½) butternut squash, chopped into 1 inch (2.5cm) cubes
- ½ (½) bag baby spinach
- 1 (1) punnet mixed baby plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes
- 800 ml (3 ⅕ cups) vegetable broth or water
- pomegranate arils to finish., not necessary, but highly recommended
Instructions
- Heat a skillet over a medium heat and add in some olive oil and saute the chopped onion, garlic and ginger until soft and fragrant.
- Once the onion is soft add in some of the Thai curry paste. Let the curry paste heat up and mix it with the onions, garlic and ginger.
- Add in the lentils, chopped butternut squash and the spices. Give it all a good stir making sure that the lentils and squash are coated in the curry paste and spices.
- This is the part where you add the vegetable stock or water. I just find that the vegetable stock gives this dhal an extra boost in flavour.
- Toss in the tomatoes (no need to cut them) and spinach. Bring the dhal up to a simmer and cover. Turn the heat down so that the lentils are at a gentle simmer and leave over low heat until the lentils are cooked. This should really only take about 15 minutes. The tomatoes will burst and the spinach will wilt.
- Finish with the pomegranate seeds, and serve with fluffy naan bread and rice.
Notes
The amount of water listed for this recipe creates a soup style dhal. If you’d like a thicker dhal, use 600ml of water or simmer the dhal uncovered to evaporate some of the water off.
Nutrition
Calories: 216kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 623mg | Fiber: 13g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 7877IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 80mg | Iron: 4mg
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