trinity and chocolate
You nee to start it off in a frying pan (onions only) or if you have one of the stock pots that you can fry in use that, mine is one you can fry stuff in and then move to the stock pot base.
Ingredients:
1 large onion (white or red), diced fine
1 small to medium butternut squash, diced into smallish chunks
2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
Thumb size piece of fresh ginger, grated (optional)
1 can tomatoes plus 2 cans full of water
2 tbsp tomato purée (optional)
200g red lentils
2 teaspoons curry powder plus 1/2 a teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric and 1 teaspoon of cumin if you have them, otherwise just add more curry powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Method:
Fry onion until soft and caramelised at edges, add garlic, ginger if using and spices and stir for a couple of minutes. Tip into slow cooker at this point or transfer stockpot from hob to slow Cooker base.
Add tomatoes, water, lentils, purée, salt and stick lid on. 4 hours on high and you should have a delicious rich Dahl, but some cookers may need up to 6 hours.