Saturday, July 21, 2007

Indian Lentil dish

It was a rainy day today so we stayed in most of the day and decided to make a great meal . We've realized, since moving here, that we have started to add more animal foods back into our diets, so now we are trying to get our focus back to a mostly plant based diet. My brother, Rick, made this Indian dish for us in Rhinelander the last time he visited us there so we decided it would be great for today. It is delicious and extremely healthy!! Here's the recipe.......

Serves 10 (can easily be cut in half, but keeps great in the freezer!)

2 cups lentils
8 cups vegetable broth
3 tbsp olive oil or grapeseed oil
1 onion chopped
2 celery ribs diced
1 red pepper diced
1 clove garlic minced
1/3 c tomato paste
1/4 c flour
1 tbsp curry powder
1 cup swiss chard or spinach cut into small pieces
2 cups brown rice

In large pot, bring broth and lentils to a boil, simmer 45 min or until lentils are tender

While lentils are cooking, saute onion, garlic, celery, pepper until tender. Add chard or spinach, paste, flour, and curry powder. Stir and cook for few minutes.

Add sauted veggies to pot of lentils.

serve over brown rice

3 comments:

Bernie said...

I bought a package of lentils last year, and every once in awhile I see it in the pantry and wonder what I'm going to do with it. I may have to try Rick's recipe.

Anonymous said...

It's so nice to see that you're all doing well. Maylani misses you all very much. She loves to look at pictures of the kids.

Anonymous said...

Good words.