Creamy coconut lentil curry
When I can afford it, and when itās on special, I buy Hart & Soul soups. Iām regularly not well enough to cook dinner, or sometimes do much preparation of food at all, so I need to have food in the pantry that I can eat pretty much immediately.
This is a recipe I sought out because I fell in love with the H&S coconut lentil soup. Itās pretty dang good. As always, the recipe itself is at the link below. Prices all sourced from Woolworths.
Creamy coconut lentil curry, from The Endless Meal.com
Makes 6 serves at 94c each.
2 tbsp oil, 9c (30ml/750ml Woolworths Essentials canola oil, $2.25)
1 tbsp cumin seeds, 46c (6g/25g Hoyts whole cumin seeds, $1.90)
1 tbsp coriander seeds, 26c (5g/25g Hoyts whole coriander seeds, $1.30)
1/4 cup minced garlic, 34c (70g/500g jar of Woolworths homebrand minced garlic, $2.40)
800g diced tomatoes, $1.20 (two 400g tins of Woolworths homebrand, 60c each)
2 tbsp ginger, 57c (35g/185g Just Foods crushed ginger, $2.99)
1 tbsp tumeric, 42c (7g/25g Hoyts turmeric, $1.50)
2 tsp salt, 1c (6g/1kg salt, 90c)
1 cup whole lentils, $1.23 (200g/375g McKenzieās whole green lentils, $2.30)
Opt: 1 tsp ground cayenne, 7c (2g/50g Hoyts cayenne, $1.64)
400g tin coconut milk, 95c (Woolworths homebrand)
Things easily skipped: handful of cherry tomatoes, chopped coriander to serve. Iāve made this without both almost every time, and you wonāt miss it.
Things easily substituted: coconut oil. I actually usually skip oil entirely, but since coconut oil is expensive af, just use whatever cooking oil you usually use. Itāll be fine, I promise.
Things easily reduced: garlic. I wouldnāt remove it entirely unless you have dietary restrictions without substituting asaphoetida. But itās entirely up to you. Also I buy my jarred garlic in kilogram jars, so I have 0 chill when it comes to this, obvs.
Good to know: In order for this to make 6 serves as the recipe says, you need to serve it over rice. I personally cook up a bunch of rice and freeze it in single serves to make this easier, since you canāt refrigerate rice safely for more than a day.