I Love Curry

Butternut Squash, Red lentil & spinach Curry.

So the Euros are upon us! Finally we have football on the TV screen again, wahoooo! Obviously this calls for some food that go well with (ginger) beer, and festering in front of the TV for a while. And what’s better than curry?! In my personal opinion, vegetable curries are seriously underrated (along with vegetable pizzas, they are always better than pizzas with meat!), so with a big knife in one hand, and a butternut squash in the other, I set about to make my delicious curry!

Ingredients:

1x large onion

4 cloves of garlic

1x butter nut squash (diced into tiny little cubes)

A big, generous handful of red lentils

1x red chilli, chopped

1x tinned tomatoes

800ml chicken stock

Spinach

Cumin

Garam masala

Coriander

In a large cooking pan, heat oil.

Add in onions, keep the heat low, throw in a bit of salt.

After 5-10 minutes of cooking, add in garlic.

Allow flavours to come out, and add in red chilli.

Add in all of the herbs and spices.

By this point it should be smelling bloody lovely!

Add in your (what seems a huge amount) butternut squash.

Give this a good stir and then, throw in lentils.

Quickly after, put in all of the stock, and the tinned tomatoes. Give it another good stir and cover.

Allow the curry a good few hours to develop on the low heat.

Give it an occasional stir and don’t forget to put the rice on 15 mins before you dish up!

3-5 mins before dishing up add in a few decent handfuls of spinach and stir in.

What I think:

Overall a really nice meal. I’m always impressed when I make something with no meat (excuse the stock!) and my boyfriend appears to be a big fan. The colours were beautiful and the curry had a lovely texture throughout, and a tasty bearable heat. Had with rice (I made cute little rice towers), some kind of Bombay potatoes (need to develop that recipe) and some garlic nann bread the boyfriend picked up (I wouldn’t have a clue how to make that!). Easily made veggie by switching to vegetable stock! I enjoyed the meal even more when I realised how cheap it was!