Ingredients

  • 1 cup dried yellow split peas
  • 2 cups vegetable stock
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 medium onion
  • 3 dried red chilies
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 12 teaspoon ground fenugreek
  • 2 tablespoons fresh coriander
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter

Method

  • Soak dried chilis in a cup of water.
  • Wash and pick through yellow split peas.
  • Rinse and drain.
  • Chop onion and garlic roughly.
  • Melt butter with olive oil in large heavy base pan.
  • When hot, add onion and garlic and tumeric and fry til transparent.
  • Add yellow split peas and stir fry gently for about 10 minutes.
  • Add vegetable stock and bring to boil then reduce to simmer.
  • Chop up chilis.
  • Chop up peeled ginger.
  • Chop up tomato roughly, deseeding and discarding pulp and seeds.
  • Add chilis, ginger and tomatos to pan.
  • Add salt and pepper.
  • Add cumin, coriander and fenugreek.
  • Put lid on pan.
  • Simmer for 45 mins, adding water if mixture dries up too much.
  • When lentils are soft, take off the heat and use a stick mixer to blend ingredients together.
  • Return to heat if it has cooled down too much.
  • Add chopped coriander and serve.