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Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« on: February 10, 2011, 08:01:33 pm »
Recipe-Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew
Book- Budget Busters.
I needed curry powder, made that first, used the Madras recipe from the F&E Indian Cookbook page 25.
Didn't have fresh spinach but used frozen Swiss Chard that I had in the freezer.I stirred that in(defrosted)at the end of the cooking time.Didn't add the (optional) cayenne pepper.
The TM is pretty well cooking to capacity and didn't think it would all cook in the 16 minutes but it did.
DS and I loved the spicy stew.Might reduce the TM stock as it was a little salty.Would love to try a little tomato next time to slightly sweeten it.This a great budget recipe.
Denise...Buckinghamshire,U.K.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 05:22:22 pm »
Sounds good CC.   What do you think of the Budget Busters book as a whole?

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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 07:14:33 pm »
Sounds good CC.   What do you think of the Budget Busters book as a whole?
I think it's a great little booklet Katya.My daughter gave it to me as a present when she came back form Oz.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 10:15:48 pm »
CC,  do you eat this as is, or with something else?

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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2011, 11:48:05 am »
CC,  do you eat this as is, or with something else?
We just ate it with bread Chookie.We both really like it and it was so simple to make.I really love recipes that you can put together at a moments notice, if you have forgotten to take something out of the freezer :-))
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 02:30:35 am »
This would be a good caravan meal. I will give it a test first.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2011, 11:59:58 am »
Made this tonight for vego teenager, but we all had a taste. Used curry powder made from the recipe in the vegetarian book.  Also served with a half quantity of chappatis from the vegetarian cookbook too.  Put the spinach (had about 100g, rather than a handful) into the thermoserver and put the curry on top to wilt it.  We liked the texture, the chickpeas made it a bit more substantial than a regular lentil dahl.  Like the comment above, it is great that it only takes 16 minutes to cook.  Easily rolled and cooked 7 chappatis while the curry churned away in Clancy (Tmx).  Fast healthy and yum.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2011, 12:37:08 pm »
Would anyone be able to post the recipe? Or a similar one? Sounds right up my ally :-*

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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2011, 12:53:34 pm »
Hi Zebraa

I will type it up and post box or whatever you call it tomorrow.  Cheers
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2011, 12:30:57 pm »
Thankyou! I do a lentil hotpot once a week and am always up fo ra few variations. This week I was going to sprout some wheat berries and mumg beans to go in it but I like the sound of this recipe!

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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2011, 08:59:11 pm »
Lellyj, once you have typed up the recipe, could you PM me a copy as well, please (this is, if you are not going to post it on here).

Many thanks.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 12:52:43 pm »
Sorry guys, took me al little while to find the time but have inboxed you with the recipe now.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2011, 09:49:45 pm »
Thanks for that.  It looks great and now is the time to make it with the weather wet and cooling down.
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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2011, 10:34:57 pm »
Hi Lellyj, could you please pm me the recipe? Thanks

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Re: Curried Chickpea and Lentil Stew-Budget Busters.
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2012, 02:37:46 am »
I made this yesterday & it really is fantastic - super cheap & really tasty.  I followed the recipe exactly & it was perfect & made exactly 6 portions like it said it would.  I'll definitely make this again & again.  Much better than a boring sandwich for a quick & healthy lunch.  I just served mine with crusty bread but I'm sure it would be lovely over rice, like a dhal.