Lentil & whey curry (Perfect Cooker recipe)

Name: Lentil & whey curry (Perfect Cooker recipe)
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 1 person
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: sprinkle of olive oil; 1/4 cup red lentils; 1 clove garlic, pressed or chopped into small pieces; 1/2 medium sized onion, sliced; 1 tbsp desiccated coconut; 1/4 tsp chili powder; 1/2 tsp ground cumin; 1/2 tsp ground coriander; 1/4 tsp turmeric; 1/2 cup whey (or stock/water); 1 tsp white wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar); 1/2 medium carrot, sliced in fairly thick pieces; 1/2 red pepper, sliced; to taste salt and pepper

John Holland @cook_25498087

Another recipe I adapted to the brilliant Perfect Cooker. Having made cheese at the weekend, I've got a couple of litres of whey to use up, so cooking everything with whey this week. This adds beautiful sweetness to this recipe, but stock or water would be fine as well.

John Holland @cook_25498087

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Ingredients

15-20 mins

1 person

sprinkle of olive oil
1/4 cupred lentils
1 clovegarlic, pressed or chopped into small pieces
1/2medium sized onion, sliced
1 tbspdesiccated coconut
1/4 tspchili powder
1/2 tspground cumin
1/2 tspground coriander
1/4 tspturmeric
1/2 cupwhey (or stock/water)
1 tspwhite wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
1/2medium carrot, sliced in fairly thick pieces
1/2red pepper, sliced
to tastesalt and pepper

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Steps

15-20 mins

1

Coat the Perfect Cooker cup with a sprinkle of olive oil
2

Put the lentils in the Perfect Cooker pot with the garlic, onion, coconut and spices.
3

Add the whey (or other liquid, which could be any flavour of stock or other cooking liquid). I made cheese at the weekend, so have quite a lot of whey left over, so I used whey in the recipe tonight instead of my usual chicken stock. The whey adds a much sweeter flavour, and the white wine vinegar complements this to produce a balanced sweet and sour flavour.
4

Layer the vegetables on top - I used carrot and pepper tonight. Carrot works particularly well in this, producing a really sweet taste. The texture of carrot remains if you chop these roughly rather than into think slices.
5

You can also add some meat, such as slices of ham or chorizo, but I prefer this as a vegetarian dish.
6

That's it - press "cook" on the Perfect Cooker.
7

You can leave it to complete cooking undisturbed, but I generally give it a stir after about 10 minutes to stop lentils sticking to the bottom.
8

Spoon on to a plate/bowl top serve.
9

Optionally, add yoghurt and spinach leaves on top.