Crockpot Red Curry Lentils
Total Time
8 hours 20 minutes
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
8 hours
Rating
4.7 out of 5 stars
(44)
Ingredients
16 servings
- 4 cups regular brown lentils (I used maasor lentils this time)
- 2 onions, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 4 tablespoons butter (optional)
- 5 tablespoons red curry paste
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- a few good shakes of cayenne pepper
- 2 cans tomato puree (29 ounces each)
- 1 teaspoon salt plus more to taste
- 1/2 cup coconut milk or cream
- cilantro for garnishing
- rice for serving
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Preparation
Step 1
Rinse the lentils and place them in a large crockpot. Add the diced onions, garlic, ginger, butter, curry paste, garam masala, turmeric, sugar, and cayenne. Stir to combine.
Step 2
Pour just 1 can of tomato puree over the lentils. Re-fill the can with water twice and add to the crockpot. Stir to make sure that the lentils are covered with liquid. Cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours or low for 7-8 hours.
Step 3
Check once or twice during cooking to add more water or tomato puree if the lentils are soaking up all the liquid. The amount of water or tomato puree you add depends on how soupy you want your lentils to be. For me, 1 1/2 cans of tomato puree plus the two cans of water was perfect. Taste and season with salt. Lentils will be soft when they are done cooking.
Step 4
Stir in the coconut milk and sprinkle with cilantro just before serving. Serve over rice or naan bread.
Step 5
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Chef's notes
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Sometimes people ask me what my favorite recipe of all time is, and even though I know I’ve made other things that I’ve also really really liked, it’s like everything else fades away in that moment and all I can think of are those saucy, spicy, perfect-as-leftovers, healthy, cheap, and easy Red Curry Lentils from way back when.
I basically took everything that I loved about the beloved backwards-named Red Curry Lentils and made them into forwards Red Lentil Curry, lazy girl style. Er, I mean crockpot style.
Is it weird that my original name for the Red Curry Lentils is sort of backwards? because who really calls them "Red Curry Lentils?" It would be a lot more normal to call it a Red Lentil Curry.
