Indian Lentils

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Category: Main Dishes | Blog URL: http://hishandshisfeettoday.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-lentil-recipe.html

This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.

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Ingredients

(large family recipe - feeds 12)
2 large onions cut up
3 cloves minced fresh garlic
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
4 teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon tumeric
2 teaspoons cumin
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon + cayenne pepper
1 can coconut milk
1 can tomato sauce (or pizza sauce!)
32 ounces lentils

Preparation

1
Large onions cut up
2
Saute them in coconut oil (or olive if you don't have it)
3
Add:
4
Cloves minced fresh garlic
5
T minced fresh ginger
6
T curry powder
7
T tumeric
8
T cumin
9
T cinnamon
10
T cayenne pepper
11
Then add 1 can coconut milk and 1 can tomato sauce... simmer together.
12
In the meantime, I cook 2 bags (32 oz) of lentils in 64 oz of chicken stock (you could do water).
13
When the lentils are soft and cooked down (about 15-20 minutes), I add the sauce to them, mix and let simmer a bit.
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Thanks for sharing your recipes with me! Here is mine... it feeds us all so you'd probably want to half it for your family! lol! It has an Indian "flare" to it and is super yummy!

2 large onions cut up
saute them in coconut oil (or olive if you don't have it)

Add:
3 cloves minced fresh garlic
1 T minced fresh ginger
4 t curry powder
1 t tumeric
2 t cumin
1/4 t cinnamon
1/2+ t cayenne pepper

Then add 1 can coconut milk and 1 can tomato sauce... simmer together.

In the meantime, I cook 2 bags (32 oz) of lentils in 64 oz of chicken stock (you could do water).
When the lentils are soft and cooked down (about 15-20 minutes), I add the sauce to them, mix and let simmer a bit.

YUMMY!!!

Yield:

12.0

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 7:06pm

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