Coconut Chickpea Daal
Delicious. Homely. Aromatic. This easy daal is a staple for many households and this is packed with flavour and enough nutrients to align with multipl...Delicious. Homely. Aromatic. This easy daal is a staple for many households and this is packed with flavour and enough nutrients to align with multiple health goals. One to add to your rotations of meals! Read more Delicious. Homely. Aromatic. This easy daal is a staple for many households and this is packed with flavour and enough nutrients to align with multiple health goals. One to add to your rotations of meals! Delicious. Homely. Aromatic. This easy daal is a staple for many households and this is packed with flavour and enough nutrients to align with multiple health goals. One to add to your rotations of meals!
Plantpoints
fibre
vegetables
spices
Plantpoints
fibre
vegetables
spices
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Plantpoints
fibre
vegetables
spices
Ingredients
Method
Gather your ingredients. (brown instead of green lentils pictured)
Heat the coconut oil in a large pot over a medium heat. Add the garlic, ginger and spring onions with seasoning and cook for 2 minutes until starting to colour.
Add the curry powder, turmeric and cumin and cook for 30 seconds, until fragrant. (ground cumin pictured)
Add the tomatoes and cook gently for 7 minutes until they break down.
Add the chickpeas and lentils and stir to combine.
Stir the chickpeas through the spiced tomatoes in the pan.
Add the coconut milk and stir through the ingredients gently. Cover and simmer very gently for 10 minutes to allow the flavours to infuse.
Add the spinach in batches. Stir through the ingredients to gently wilt, then repeat until all the spinach is used up. When the last batch is used, cook for another 2 minutes then take off the heat. Stir through the lime, add salt and pepper to taste and top with fresh coriander to serve.
User comments (82)
I use whatever greens I happened to have. Double the recipe so I can freeze the leftovers. When I make this for finicky people, I add a bit of brown sugar. I've also dumped veggies just starting to get too old. All kinds of cabbage-ish stuff, fresh peas, green beans.
I ADDED SOME CHICKEN BREAST (80G PER SERVING) AFTER THE GARLIC, GINGER AND SPRING ONIONS. I USED 1/2 LIME SQUEEZE PER SERVING AT THE END. I ALSO USED 1/2 SPINACH 1/2 KALE, WHICH AGAIN ENHANCED THE TASTE. NEXT TIME I'LL TRY ADDING CHICKEN THIGH (100G PER SERVING).
Pretty good recipe, nice and easy to make without too much chopping. We used curly kale instead of spinach (we generally prefer cavolo nero over spinach but there wasn't any left in the shop!) so didn't use quite as much, as it doesn't wilt down as much. Although tasty I felt it was lacking a bit of a kick so drizzled chilli oil over the top which definitely perked it up a bit. Would make it again as its good for batch cooking/meal prep.
Really tasty, lovely flavours
This dish is delicious. I will make it again.
I substituted thai green curry paste for the curry powder, and added a chopped green pepper to the onions. Delicious!
Beautiful - you have to make this, so easy and freezes well.
Delicious.
Absolutely delicious! I've loved all the recipes I've cooked from this app but this was my favourite so far. It was incredibly tasty with subtle curry flavours. Following another reviewer's advice, I added some prawns which went very well with the dahl but white fish or chicken would be equally as tasty. Love that it's freezer friendly too!
Aromatic and easy. Divine with shrimp.
Incredibly easy to cook and worth the effort.
Lovely quick meal and delicious 😋
So easy and delicious!
Very delicious, the lime really lifts it. We had prawns with ours and they added a nice bit of sweetness. Adding this to the 'will make again' list.
Delicious despite having to adjust recipe to what I had in my cupboards Dr Ruby and your team are the beat
Excellent with monkfish
So tasty! And really simple. I added prawns to mine at the end which I saw on the YouTube channel, worked great!
Delicious! I added sweet potato too. I froze this dish in five different containers and now I have quick and healthy lunch options. Love it!
Absolutely scrumptious!
I did not have any chickpeas (and am not a great fan) so used kidney beans instead. The recipe seems quite forgiving.
The flavour combination was a real success and the freshness from the lime works particularly well.
Definitely a favourite
Very tasty and simple! We combined it with whole grain rice. Loved it
Beautiful easy recipe, packed with flavour.
Amazing!!
I didn’t have any cooked lentils and consulted with the AI and I ended up cooking the whole lot together in my instant pot with 75g dry lentils and 200ml water and cooked for 12 mins . Served with homemade chappatis, cucumber raita and it was delicious. Will definitely put this into favorites
This recipe is rounded, subtle flavours that are not lost in this fabulous dish. I used frozen spinach and put it in with the coconut milk. It worked a treat. Nothing else was changed. It goes into my favourite Healthy Eating folder to be cooked again.
Really nice but I could of eaten a bigger serving.
Family favourite already..great flavours and the lime juice at the end is a winner. Like most dishes with aromatic spices, it is easily as good if not better the next day.
An easy and tasty meal.
Very nice 👍 easy recipe. Used coconut cream by mistake but still very good.
This was really tasty. Would definitely make again.
Simple to
Make
Very flavoursome dish, will definitely cook again. Used tinned tomatoes as I didn’t have fresh, and drained a bit of the juice so it wasn’t so watery. Used 100g creamed coconut in 300ml water instead of coconut milk. Only had frozen spinach which I’ll add at the same time as the coconut milk next time as it took a while to defrost.
Great recipe, full of flavour. It blends down really well for a smooth curry (perfect for our toddler).
It tastes great cold with a salad, but even better when reheated the next day, once flavours have had time to enhance!
It’s a bi-weekly easy meal.
Tasty, thought it had more depth of flavour when simmered for longer.
Delicious and easy! We added some camargue red rice which was really nice!
Loved this daal. Will make again and again and again.
Lovely mix of flavours, second time I have made it. We love this dish
So delicious and warming. Perfect winter dinner.
Quick and delicious! I didn’t have spinach but used cavelo nero instead. I think it’s a great vehicle for getting your fibre but also swapping out various veggies in place of spinach, I think some grated broccoli would be a nice addition also.
I did almost double the spices,,, but that's just me,,,, a love a flavor punch!!!
Punchy flavour, but not too spicy, balanced with the lime and coconut Nice mix of textures-lentils, chickpeas and spinach
Cooked this a while ago. It is absolutely delicious!
Absolutely delicious. I used up some mushrooms by adding them to the daal; yummy !
My husband likes it
Lovely and tasty curry. Easy to makr
I have a problem with the skin of the cherrie tomatoes, they start floating in the curry. Maybe I try with some can tomatoes
Quick and simple. Delicious.
Very tasty. Served with homemade flatbread.
Great, easy, hotter than expected (bonus) , added an extra can of green lentils and 1x tbspn ground almond to thicken and served with a dollop of natural yoghurt
Delicious 😋
It was delicious and very easy to cook. Thank you for the great recipe!
Didn't have fresh coriander, so I used ground on top.
This was tangy and delicious!