No image available
Member recipe

Dahl Curry

Member recipe by

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
(0 ratings)

Member recipe by

Cooking time

Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 1 hour

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 4

Vegetarion lentil curry

This recipe has been submitted by the Good Food community. Sign in or create a My Good Food account to upload your own recipe creations. Please note that all recipes will be moderated but they are not tested in the Good Food kitchen.
Save to My Good Food
Please sign in or register to save recipes.
Print

Ingredients

  • 2 x Fresh Chillies
  • 1 lb Rred Split Lentils
  • 1 x Onion
  • 2 x Garlic Cloves
  • 1 x Tin Chopped Tomatoes
  • Tomotoe Puree
  • Chicken Stock Cube to make a pint
  • Ghee or oil
  • Chickpeas Tin
  • Fresh Corriander finely chopped
  • Salt and Pepper to taste

Spices

  • 1/2 tsp Corriander Seeds
  • 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 1/2 tsp Tumeric Powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
  • Pinch Chillie Powder

Optional Ingredients

  • Eggs (1 per person)
  • Chickpeas
  • Fresh Spinach leaves

Method

  1. Chop onion and finely chop garlic and mash the garlic with a little salt to make a paste. Soak then rinse lentils, blend the spices to a powder. Fry onion, garlic till cooked then add spices fry for a further minute add tin of tomotoes along with a good squeeze of the tomotoe puree, cook for a further 5 minutes.

  2. Add the washed lentils top up with the chicken stock, keep adding water as the lentils will absorb alot of water keep lid on cooking time is around 1 hr. Check the Dahl lentils are cooked through

  3. At the end add spinach leaves corriander and chickpeas and eggs as an optional ingredient, further cook till leaves have wilted down. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve with rice

BBC GoodFood Magazine

Comments, questions and tips

Sign in or create your My Good Food account to join the discussion.
Be the first to comment...We'd love to hear how you got on with this recipe. Did you like it? Would you recommend others give it a try?
Be the first to ask a question about this recipe...Unsure about the cooking time or want to swap an ingredient? Ask us your questions and we’ll try and help you as soon as possible. Or if you want to offer a solution to another user’s question, feel free to get involved...
Be the first to suggest a tip for this recipe...Got your own twist on this recipe? Or do you have suggestions for possible swaps and additions? We’d love to hear your ideas.