This is a delicious and quick recipe from the BBC Good Food website that is great for using up vegetables. I used butternut squash instead of sweet potato and threw in some nearly gone parsnips too. I also doubled the recipe so that I could take some to work the next day!
What you need…
- 100g red lentils
- 450ml veg stock
- 1 onion,
- 2 tomatoes
- ½ tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 red chilli (or ½ a green chilli)
- 1 large sweet potato (or root veg of your choice)
- 2 handfuls young leaf spinach
Serve with…
- 2 x naan bread, warmed
- Spoonful of natural yoghurt (optional)
What to do…
- Finely chop the onion and chilli. Chop the root veg into bitesize pieces. Shred the spinach.
- Put all the ingredients except the root veg, spinach and naan in a pan, bring to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add the root veg and cook until tender, another 10-12 minutes. Stir in the spinach and cook for a minute until wilted.
- Serve with naan.
* Tip: A dollop of natural yoghurt on top works a treat!
kitchencanny 
This looks yummy. I don’t think I’ve ever had Dahl before. I once volunteer with a group to serve food to the homeless. One of the things we served was Dahl and I remember it smelling so good.
Glad to hear you like the sound of it…give it a try this week and let us know how it goes!
I really like your writing style, great info , appreciate it for putting up : D.
Thanks for the feedback! Stay tuned for more recipe ideas…and feel free to share your own with us!
Can you freeze this down?
Yes, it freezes well and still tastes good defrosted and reheated 🙂
Thanks for this post: this recipe was a great hit with my family when I did dinner one evening and all we had for a curry was lentils and spinach (my mother’s favourite vegetable). I found the recipe on BBC Good Food. When I wanted to do it again I found the original page had been removed from the BBC website because the copyright of the recipe had expired. I was so pleased to find it on your page 🙂 Now it’s favourited to my browser’s bookmarks.
The rest of your recipe website looks interesting and I’ll be visiting the site again to look for more great finds 🙂
Emma
I forgot to add that I usually cook it without the root veg of sweet potato or parsnips (I tend to stick to lower GI, lower carb cooking so if there’s naan, other Indian breads or rice with a curry I wouldn’t put more cabs in the curry) and still pretty tasty. Although I’m sure having it with both is great for a super filling meal. 🙂
Hi, thanks for your message, glad we could help out! Your variations sound good as well, will definitely have to try those out 🙂
This was so delicious…definitely one to make a regular appearance at the dinner table- thank you!
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Just cooked this, and although super tasty and filling I found I had to add extra water to be sure the curry didn’t dry up. Even though I added extra water the lentils burnt at the bottom of the pan, so I have a lot of scrubbing to do later after a good soak.
That was disappointing, I’m glad the meal is so delicious to make up for it!
Oh dear, hope you didn’t have too much scrubbing to do, at least you still got a tasty meal out of it!
Thanks so much, they’ve removed it from their site and I was devastated! I’m printing this out and saving it now! 😉
This is my favourite recipe.. It is so tasty. I add some creamed coconut to it and it is amazing..
Glad I have found it again after the bbc removed it from their website!