I just cooked some lentils with garam masala and adjacent hot spices with some vegetables in the instant pot and made bulgur in my regular pot. I mixed it up when I ate it.
This is one of my favourite cheap meals!
Share your recipe and I’ll share mine yo.
I start my lentils by braising onions and ginger together (add a good pinch of salt to help it along) and when the onions are getting nice and brown, add in the garlic and chilli and some of the stronger spices (star anise, bay leaf, black pepper corns, turmeric) and once that’s fragrant, add and cook off some tomato paste. Then add the red lentils, a can of tomatos and a couple of cans of water/vegeta stock.
Once it’s cooked I fish out the whole spices and optional but nice if I have the energy, blend the onions in.
Then finish it with a spoon of garam masala and either vinegar or lemon juice to really get all the flavours popping.
What vegetables do you add to your lentils?
I have a bunch of autoimmune problems so I don’t cook with oil or fat and my partner is unfortunately allergic to alliums and gets hives after eating onions so we eat no onions or garlic. So we’re like whole food plant based jains or something lol.
I put 1 cup brown (sabut masoor) lentils and 3 cups water in the pressure cooker with chopped carrots and celery. To this I added salt, pepper, some tomato paste and garam masala I make from whole spices. I only buy whole spices and I use a coffee grinder to blend them fresh, when you’re eating low fat without onions you need as many flavor enhancers as possible and fresh ground spices is the best. I bring this to pressure 20 minutes then did natural release. I squeezed some lime and a little extra spices into it at the end and stirred. I wish I had added cubed potato to it to be honest.
You two must smell amazing, haha. Do you have a favourite savoury seasoning mix?
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I need to buy curry leaves and vegan butter again, you’ve got me craving daal tadka something bad!
I like to eat mine with diced beetroot on top but I’m definitely adding some ginger too next time as those flavours work so well together.
Thanks for the inspo!
