I
had a need to cook something yesterday – I have been slacking off on cooking
this week as I had some meals prepared for those who are eating while the rest
of us are doing this cleanse.
When
I am thinking something over, I always like to cook, bake or be in the kitchen
in some way – just to create. In the end I decided to make a sort of dahl dish
for my daughter…
Of
course there is no real recipe that I follow for this meal – I just sort of add
things together until I get the result I am looking for. And with any dahl, it
is so easy to make – and tasty too!
I
started with a few vegetables – onion, leek, garlic – and stir-fried these in
olive oil until well done and fragrant in the sauce pan. Then I added about 1
cup of soaked red lentils and some water and let all of this come to a low boil.
In
the meantime I chopped a few carrots, a large sweet potato and a little seaweed
and placed them into the pot. Next it was time for some seasonings…so I just
put in whatever I could find.
Turmeric,
coriander, cumin, cinnamon, ginger, salt and pepper – all went into the stew as
it bubbled away until there was a nice dahl like smell filling the kitchen. Of
course this type of dish cooks fairly quickly – so nearing the end of cooking I
added a dollop of butter and another large tablespoon of coconut butter.
After
about ½ hour this was nicely thickened and ready to sit for awhile – which is
when I added a little sprinkle of chopped parsley before I blended it a tiny
bit just to make it a little more like a dahl.
Once
it was cool some chopped garlic chives were tossed over the top – and it
smelled lovely – great with some of that olive bread I had ready with very
garlicky guacamole.
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