easy dahl recipee

[bagpussmice]

Anyone got one?

[Enid]

well I do this:

cook red lentils in water until soft (or yellow split peas even nicer if you can be bothered to soak them)

heat oil and big lump of butter in frying pan. Add curry paste/spices + 2 cloves of chopped garlic until you get a nice oily runny garlicky mess. Stir into cooked and drained lentils with lots of salt and pepper and a big bag of spinach and toss until spinach wilted.

scrum

a bit of lemon juice is nice too.

[Willow2]

That sounds yummy.

Does anyone know a good recipe for vegetable dansak? I live on the Waitrose one - but would like to make my own.

[bagpussmice]

sounds delicious Enid - might try that - what spices do you add?

[jackeroo]

i've been wanting to make dahl too but have bought green lentils - do you think they will be ok for this?

[Enid]

Well I grind my own or more often than not I use a big dollop of pataks madras curry paste which is very good (but pretty hot).

[bagpussmice]

willow2 I've got an excellent recipee for a butternut squash and chick pea dhansak - it is a bit of a cheat as you use a dhansak jar sauce - but still really yummy - let me know if you're interested and I can send you the recipee..
In fact I am cooking it tonight - it's v. easy!

[Willow2]

Sounds good - please email me at [email protected] - I'll report back once it's in my tum

[bagpussmice]

willow2 - I've emailed you the details - enjoy!

[Willow2]

That's odd - nothing has arrived so far. Could you send it again? It's [email protected] - thank you!

[spidermama]

Those sound good. One adjunct ....

TARKA:
After you've cooked the lentils in the curry paste gently fry some (lots) garlic in butter until it's just about to turn brown, then add it right at the end. This puts the 'tarka' in tarka dahl.