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Lentil Dhansak
Cauldron Lentil Dhansak is made with red lentils, vegetables and green chilli, using a special blend of Bengali spices
Ingredients
2 x 160g packs Cauldron Marinated Tofu Pieces
- 3 tbsp desiccated coconut
- 2 cloves garlic
- 6 shallots or 1 onion, sliced
- 2 lemongrass stalks, peeled and sliced
- 2-3 fresh chillis, depending on your personal heat preference
- 2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 250ml tin coconut milk
- 125ml water
- 1 tsp tamarind pulp, dissolved in 1 tbsp water
- 4 star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 tbsp fresh coriander, roughly chopped, plus extra to garnish
Rendang
- Serves 4
- 4/5 difficulty
- 30 minutes
This fragrant Malaysian curry is well worth all those spices and a little extra effort.
Method
- Heat a dry frying pan, add the desiccated coconut and toast until lightly golden.
- Grind or blend together the toasted coconut, garlic, shallots or onion, lemongrass, chillis, ginger, turmeric, salt and sugar to make a paste.
- Heat the oil in a heavy based frying pan. Add the paste and cook for 5 minutes, stirring until fragrant.
- Add the coconut milk to the pan along with 125ml water, the tamarind water, star anise and cinnamon stick and bring to the boil stirring consistantly.
- Reduce the heat and simmer gently for a further 5 minutes. Then add the marinated Tofu pieces and continue to cook gently for a further 10 minutes. Stir in the chopped coriander.
- To serve, garnish with more fresh coriander. Delicious served with steamed rice or noodles and chilli fried spinach.
Comments
HANNAH says: 29 July 2010 at 12:33 PM
Having traveled Asia I love asian food. Have cooked this now a few times and my partner and friends who are not vegetarian and asian food eating experts gave this a 9.5/10 on the taste test. They all love it!!
LINDSEY says: 04 September 2010 at 7:16 PM
This dish is delicious! Neither my partner or I are vegetarian, and we tenuously tried it as we wanted an alternative to meat. We loved it and we will be making it for a long time to come.
SILVIA says: 06 June 2010 at 8:30 PM
I've tried this dish tonight: delicious! Even my partner - who's not vegetarian - has been raving about it.
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