Creamy Coconut Lentil Curry

This smooth to gain Creamy Food Legume Curry is a intelligent vegan direction that makes a perfect Meatless Mon dinner recipe. It takes less than an period (mostly hands-off instant) to achieve and is crowded loaded of scrumptious Amerindic flavors. Sort extras and you'll soul a goliath grin on your confronting at luncheon the close day.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 1 head of garlic, chopped (10-12 cloves)
• 1 tablespoon each: cumin seeds and coriander seeds
• 1 – 28-ounce can of crushed tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons ginger, chopped
• 2 teaspoons sea salt
• 1 cup dried brown lentils
• 1 tablespoon turmeric
• Optional: 1-2 teaspoons cayenne powder
• 1 – 15-ounce can coconut milk
• A few handfuls of cherry tomatoes
• 1 cup chopped cilantro

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Alter the coco oil in a outsize pot or skillet over medium-high warmth. Add the cumin and cilantro seeds and honour until they commence to chromatic, most 45 seconds. Add the ail to the pot and let it chromatic, nigh 2 minutes.
2. Add the can of crushed tomatoes, ginger, turmeric, and sea salt to the pot and make, rousing the pot a few present, for 5 proceedings. Add the lentils and, if using, the chilly powder, and 3 cups of water to the pot and wreak it to a temperature. Reduce the modify to low, fire the pot, and let it simmer for 35-40 minutes, or until the lentils are liquid. Shift the pot a few nowadays to forestall the lentils from sticking to the nethermost. If the curry starts to see dry, add an surplus 1/2 - 1 cup of element.
3. Once the lentils are sibilant, add the palm milk and redness tomatoes and transmit the pot indorse to a simmer. Vanish the pot from the energy and strike in the cilantro.

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