Steps to Prepare Homemade Red Lentil & Butternut Squash Coconut Dal

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, red lentil & butternut squash coconut dal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. As a food crop, the majority of world production comes from Canada and India. This red lentil dal recipe comes by way of my friend Kerissa Barron, who spent several months living and traveling through India.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have red lentil & butternut squash coconut dal using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil & Butternut Squash Coconut Dal:

1. Get 1 butternut squash
2. Get 2 onions
3. Get 400 g red split lentils
4. Get 400 ml coconut milk
5. Take 800 ml water (boiling)
6. Get 1 tsp tomato puree
7. Get 2 tsp curry powder
8. Make ready 1/2 tsp chilli powder (or fresh chilli)
9. Get 1 vegetable stock cube
10. Take Pumpkin seeds
11. Get Salt, pepper, oil
12. Prepare To serve:
13. Take Coriander garnish (optional)
14. Make ready Plain naan bread

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Steps to make Red Lentil & Butternut Squash Coconut Dal:

1. Peel and chop the butternut squash into small squares. Add a small amount of olive oil to two baking trays and split the squash over the two trays so they are a single layer. Season with salt and pepper, and half a teaspoon of curry powder per tray. Mix with your hands an out in the oven for 45mins at 210c. (Or cook until they are just starting to brown on the outside).
2. Meanwhile, chop the onion into small squares. Add to a large frying pan with a small amount of oil. Cook for 2 mins on medium heat. Add the remaining teaspoon of curry powder, tomato puree and chilli powder. Stir to coat the onion and cook for a further two mins.
3. Next add the water, coconut milk, stock cube and lentils. Stir well and leave to cook for 30mins on a low heat. Stir occasionally to prevent it catching.
4. Once both the dal and squash is cooked, check seasoning and add more pepper or chilli to taste. Add the squash to the dal and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds. Garnish with coriander and serve with naans.

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