I love making a dahl every now and then, and my favourite one is definitely a sweet potato dahl. The sweetness of the potato works very well with all the Indian spices.
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
🥘 Main ingredients
- sweet potatoes
- onion
- spinach leaves
- lentils
- vegetable stock
- olive oil or other vegetable oil
- fresh turmeric
- fresh ginger
- garlic
- ground cumin
- ground coriander
- chilli paste
- coriander leaves
- lime
This dahl is not only super easy and quick to make, but it is full of nutrition. A great pick me up lunch, or dinner.
💭 Serving suggestions
Of course you can enjoy this dahl with a bowl of rice of your choice, or stir some rice through it. I often have it with just some rustic bread, or fresh chapati's. If you are interested to make your own chapati's, check out my page 'love for bread' to get the recipe.
Feel free to add any of your preferred vegetables. It is a dish which you can easy adjust to your own liking. Use kale instead of spinach, or add some more heat by using fresh chilli pepper sliced. I always like to balance the sweetness and spice with some acidity, that is why I season it with some lime juice. But this as well is only personal preference. Taste and decide for yourself to use it or not.
🍷 Beverage pairing
I personally am as much of a beer lover as a wine lover, so I tend to reach more for a nice cold refreshing beer with spicy dishes, than a glass of wine.
But a nice full rich white wine would work here as well. Think of a rich full Chardonnay, or one of the Languedoc blends (or rhone valley) like the roussanne / marsanne blends.
Create yourself this easy and quick feel good dish, and feel on top of the world! Let me know which adjustments you made to this sweet potato dahl. I am always interested to hear, and see your creations. So, add @haricoco1 to your instagram post, or comment down below. ENJOY!
📋 Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes peeled and diced
- 1 onion chopped
- 85 g ⅜ cup spinach leaves
- 200 g lentils 1 cup, can or pre-boiled dried
- 250 ml 1 cup vegetable stock
- 2 tablespoon olive oil or other vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon fresh turmeric finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon garlic finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon chilli paste
- handful of coriander leaves chopped
- juice of ½ lime
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a pan, and saute the onion with a pinch of salt for 3 - 4 minutes
- Add the ginger, garlic and turmeric, and stir for another 2 minutes.
- Stir in the spices (cumin, coriander and chilli paste).
- After 1 minute add the sweet potato and stir well, so the sweet potato is well covered with all the spices.
- Add the vegetable stock, bring to the boil, and let it simmer (covered) for approx. 20 minutes until the sweet potato is cooked.
- Add the lentils, and simmer for another few minutes.
- Stir in the spinach leaves.
- And season to taste with salt, pepper, and lime juice.
- At the end stir the fresh coriander in.
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