Potato Dal

Hi everyone,

Tonight, I'm making a yummy food, which is great for winter and cold weather. It's made with red lentils, which you can buy from any supermarket. You can serve this food as stew or soup. This food is great for your meatless mondays. I hope you like this food :)

Bonus:

This food has mushroom, garlic, lentils and cayenne pepper.

• Mushroom: rich in vitamin D and great to boost your immune system (which both are necessities in the winter), (more)
• Garlic: one of the top ten power foods, with so many nutritional benefits, like antibacterial and antifungal properties (more)
• Lentils: protein rich, also high in fiber (more)
• Cayenne pepper: great for cold, anti-inflammatory properties (more)

Serving size: 6 people

Prep time: 15 min

Cook time: 30 min

What you need

Small onion: 2

Botton mushroom: 3

Olive oil: 1 Tbsp

Medium potato: 2

Hot water: 4 cup

Tomato paste: 2 Tbsp

Curry powder: 2 tsp

Salt: 3 tsp

Cayenne pepper: 1/8 tsp

Red lentils: 1 1/2 cup

How to prepare

• Chop onions and stir them with olive oil on medium heat in a saucepan.
• When onions are golden and soft, chop mushrooms and potato and add to the onions.

Mix hot water and tomato paste in a small bowl and add it to the saucepan. Add curry powder, salt and cayenne pepper. Cook until potatoes are half cooked.

Add red lentils, and cook over low heat until red lentils and potatoes are cooked throughly, in about 20 minutes. Stir every 10 minutes.
You can serve potato dal with peppermint pita bread (Recipe) and Spring greens mix.