Pasta with Spiced Lentils and Tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- 3 cloves garlic chopped fine
- 1 small onions chopped fine
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon coriander ground
- 1 teaspoon ginger ground
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes crushed
- 16 ounces tomatoes, canned, whole, peeled
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup brown lentils
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup yogurt, low-fat
- 2 tablespoons basil finely shredded
- 1 x pasta cooked
- In a large skillet or saucepan, heat the oil with the garlic and onion over moderate heat.
- When they sizzle, add the cummin, coriander, giner, and red pepper flakes and saute for 1 minute.
- Add the tomatoes, breaking them up with your hands, and stir in the broth, lentils, and sugar.
- Simmer until the lentils are tender and the sauce is thick, about 30 minutes.
- Then stir in the yogurt and the basil and spoon over cooked pasta.
- Note: To make reduced chicken broth.
- Put the canned broth of your choice in a heavy saucepan and boil briskly until it has reduced to half of its original volume (approximately 15 minutes to reduce 2 cups of broth to one cup).
peanut oil, garlic, onions, cumin, coriander ground, ginger ground, red pepper, tomatoes, chicken broth, brown lentils, sugar, yogurt, basil, pasta
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/pasta-spiced-lentils-tomatoes-44826 (may not work)