Warming Vegetarian Lentil Coconut Curry

Delicious vegetarian lentil coconut curry served in a rustic bowl with fresh tomatoes and lemon slic.

In some areas of Australia people are starting to feel a little nip in the air as Summer closes out and the cooler weather begins. We’ve been fighting that feeling with a few warm meals, the kind that keep you toasty from the inside out. This is definitely one of them.

It’s always good to have a few delicious vegetarian meals in your repertoire like this Warming Vegetarian Lentil Coconut Curry, and this is one that’s always well received. We love to make a big batch of this stuff on a Sunday and stretch it over into meat-free Mondays. Yum!

Warming Vegetarian Lentil Coconut Curry

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
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Comforting lentil curry simmered in creamy coconut milk with spices.

Course: Recipes, VegetarianCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings
+

4

servings
Prep time

10

minutes
Cooking time

30

minutes
Calories

300

kcal
Total time

40

minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 Onion-chopped finely

  • 1 Sweet potato-peeled and cut into cubes

  • 3 Carrots-sliced into thin rounds

  • 3 Clove garlic-minced

  • 440 ml Coconut milk

  • 1 cup Red lentils

  • 400 gram Tomatoes-tinned

  • 3 cups Vegetable stock

  • 0.25 tsp Ginger

  • 1 tsp Curry powder

  • 0.5 tsp Coriander-ground

  • 0.5 tsp Turmeric

  • 0.25 tsp Cayenne pepper-or more depending on taste

Directions

  • In a large soup pot sauce the onion for 4 minutes with a pinch of salt (per your taste). Then add the garlic and stir into the onion for about a minute.
  • To this mixture, add the spices including curry powder, ground ginger, coriander, turmeric and cayenne pepper. Stir for less than a minute, or until the smell is strong.
  • Add in the cubed sweet potato and sliced carrots and stir for a few minutes, then add the lentils. After the lentils throw in the tomatoes, and after stirring add the coconut milk.
  • To this mixture add the vegetable stock and bring the entire mix to a boil.
  • Once the mix is boiling, simmer on a low heat with the lid on until the sweet potato and carrots are cooked and the lentils are nice and tender. This should take 15 – 20 minutes, but will ultimately depend on the size of your sweet potato cubes.
  • Serve by itself, or with rice (which will increase the number of servings the dish will yield). Squeezing a little bit of lemon over the top is also delicious!
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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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