Steps to Prepare Quick Curried Red Lentils

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, curried red lentils. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Curried Red Lentils is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Curried Red Lentils is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have curried red lentils using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Curried Red Lentils:

1. Take red lentils
2. Prepare large onion, diced
3. Get vegetable / coconut oil
4. Prepare tomato puree (approx. 404 grams)
5. Take frozen petit pois (optional)
6. Prepare curry paste
7. Prepare curry powder
8. Prepare ground turmeric
9. Get ground cumin
10. Prepare chili powder
11. Get salt
12. Prepare white sugar
13. Get minced garlic
14. Take minced fresh ginger

Instructions to make Curried Red Lentils:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Add water during cooking as needed to keep covered, until tender. This takes approximately 15-20mins.
4. 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.
5. Mix curry paste, curry powder, turmeric, cumin, chili powder, salt, sugar, garlic & ginger in a bowl and set aside.
6. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat and cook onions until they are soft and caramalised.
7. Stir spice mixture into the onions. Increase heat to high and cook, stirring constantly until fragrant (approx 2-3 mins).
8. Stir in the tomato puree and heat through.
9. Remove skillet from heat and stir into the lentils.
10. Add in frozen petit pois without thawing and allow the heat from the curried lentils to heat it through.
11. 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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