Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, curried red lentil and potato soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A hearty, comforting soup with tons of plant-based protein and fiber. The base for this simple curry soup is onion, garlic, ginger, carrots, and potatoes. How To Make Curry Sweet Potato + Red Lentil Soup.
Curried red lentil and potato soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Curried red lentil and potato soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook curried red lentil and potato soup using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Curried red lentil and potato soup:
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil or coconut oil
- Get 1 onion, finely chopped
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Make ready 1 inch fresh ginger, finely chopped or frozen
- Get 1 tbsp garam masala
- Prepare 1 heaped tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin
- Take 200 ml tinned coconut milk
- Get 500 ml stock - I used some chicken stock that needed using from the freezer but you could use vegetable stock here instead
- Prepare 1 potato, peeled and chopped into chunks
- Get 1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped
- Make ready 1 cup red lentils
- Get 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Prepare 1 tsp mango chutney
- Make ready 1 heaped tbsp dessicated coconut (unsweetened)
- Take Squeeze lemon
- Take 1 tbsp natural yoghurt - I used thick greek yoghurt. (You could leave this out if you don't have any - it will just be a little less rich and creamy.)
- Get Salt
- Get Chilli flakes
If you're like me and are ready to be converted, this red lentil sweet potato stew is a darn good place to start. Though it's a bit of a hot mess, it's been one of our favorite recipes this fall. Delicious and satisfying, this thick red lentil and sweet potato soup recipe can be cooked with or without a pressure cooker. Add the curry powder and stir until combined.
Instructions to make Curried red lentil and potato soup:
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan and add the onion, garlic and ginger. Cook for a few minutes until starting to soften.
- Add the spices and mix with the onion. Now add the potato and carrot and coat with the spices. Add a little stock (2-3 tbsps) to loosen the spices.
- Add the lentils and stir well. Add the coconut milk and 1/4 of the stock and stir well. Bring to the boil and reduce to a simmer. Add the tomato puree, dessicated coconut and mango chutney and stir well.
- Cook for 5 minutes with the lid on. Now add the rest of the stock, bring to the boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook with the lid on for 25 minutes or until the veg and lentils are lovely and soft. Stir regularly so that the lentils don't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Use a hand blender to blend the soup until smooth (you can serve the soup as it is before blending which will give you more of a thin dahl).
- Add a good squeeze of lemon juice, yoghurt and seasoning and simmer for a few more minutes. Serve in warm bowls with some lovely fresh chunky bread - we had ours with porridge oat bread while it was still warm from the bread maker… Heaven!
Dump in the sweet potatoes, lentils, remaining coconut milk, water, and salt/pepper. This soup has complex Thai-inspired flavor but comes together quickly with red curry paste. I no longer bother making my own red curry paste after discovering the Maesri line of curry pastes at a local Red lentils cook much faster than brown or green and at about the same rate as the sweet potatoes. The addition of the red lentils also helps to reinforce the beautiful orange color of this soup, but in addition they are nice because they are really quick cooking and kind of start to fall apart once they are added, which is perfect for the texture once you blend it together. Red lentils soften up quickly when cooked, which makes them great for thickening soups.
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