Curry Lentils With Chicken

Submitted by WonderMima

"This is an anitajoye original and it is delish! It's great crockpot dish. Start it in the morning and it will be ready for dinner. You can serve it over Basmatti rice, or eat alone as a soup"

 

• Ready In: 5hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 cups lentils
• 3 cups water
• 2 chicken breasts, cubed
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1 onion, minced
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice or (15 ounce) can fresh tomatoes, equivalent
• 2 teaspoons curry powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cumin
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ginger
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1⁄2 cup cilantro, chopped
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Put all ingredients but the cilantro in the crock pot. If you want your chicken in a 'shredded' like consistency, put it in now, if you want it less done, add about 1.5 hours before you want to eat it in chunks.
2. Leave to cook overnight or start in the morning for dinner.
3. Taste to season with salt and pepper and add fresh cilantro.
4. stir and enjoy.
5. Can be eaten alone or with rice.
6. Can be cooked on the stove top as well, but the crockpot is easiest.
7. Soooo yummy.

Reviews

[Cookalicious]

An easy enough dish with plenty of flavor (I added more cumin, some cumin and crushed red pepper because of other reviews - great idea). Great curry dish. Thanks for sharing!

 

[beccsterjoy]

My DH and I love this recipe! I add more garlic and cumin and and use a spicy curry powder to heat it up a bit. Very satisfying and nutritious.

 

[Gabri]

I was a little hesitant about the spice combination, but I really liked this. I did add some cayenne and crushed red pepper to give it some heat because I used a mild curry powder. Great easy, tasty, healthy crockpot recipe! Thanks!

 

[SugarJen]

This was just so-so. Seemed like it was missing something. Also lentils and chicken have different cooking times, so the chicken was dried out before the lentils were done cooking. If I was going to make this again I would let the whole thing cook for a couple of hours before I added the chicken.

 

[Lyteyz]

This was a fabulous recipe. It was so easy to make. Just through it all in the crock and "set it and forget it". I did add a little more curry and cumin than it calls for...because we really like those flavors. After cooking all day long we enjoyed this over some Basmatti rice...sprinkled a little salt and pepper...DELICIOUS!