Green Pea Curry

Green Pea Curry

Green Pea Curry

By: Lee Holmes

Give an exotic twist to the dinner table with this delicious Caribbean-inspired pea curry.


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Ingredients

  • 1½ cups green split peas, soaked overnight in water, then rinsed
  • 1½L filtered water
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 2 onions, diced
  • ½ tbsp grated ginger
  • 3 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 2 green chillies, seeded & chopped
  • ½ tsp ground turmeric
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 2½ tsp fennel seeds
  • 1 tomato, diced
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 6 curry leaves, plus extra to serve
  • 310mL rice milk or coconut milk
  • Celtic sea salt, to taste

Method


  • Put split peas and water in medium saucepan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 30 mins or until cooked. Strain peas, reserving liquid, and set aside.
  • Heat half the ghee in large frying pan over medium
heat. Add onion, ginger, garlic and chilli and cook for
5–7 mins or until the onion is golden. Add turmeric, coriander and fennel seeds and cook for 2–3 minutes. Add tomato and cook for 5 mins or until softened. Remove from heat.
  • Heat remaining oil in large frying pan over medium heat. Add garam masala and curry leaves and cook for 1 min. Pour in 250mL of reserved pea liquid and bring to the boil. Stir in cooked peas then add rice milk or coconut milk and warm through. Season with salt.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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