Today’s session was a cookalong where we made a coconut & spinach Dhal as well as an alternative breakfast muesli, CADA.

 

COCONUT & SPINACH DHAL

Ingredients

  • 240 g onions, quartered
  • 1 – 2 fresh green chillies, to taste
  • 150 g ripe tomatoes, quartered
  • 250 g red split lentils, rinsed
  • 400 g tinned coconut milk
  • 1 tsp ground turmeric
  • 2 tsp black mustard seeds
  • 300 g vegetable stock
  • 120 g fresh baby spinach
  • or fresh spinach leaves, roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp fresh coriander leaves, chopped, for serving

 

CADA

Ingredients

  • 80 g coconut flesh, fresh, unpeeled, cut in pieces
  • 1 apple, stem removed, quartered
  • 4 dates, pitted
  • 10 almonds (I added a large handful!)

 

Bonus recipe!

HOMEMADE VEGGIE STOCK PASTE

Ingredients

200 g celery stalks, trimmed, cut into pieces
2 carrots, cut into pieces
1 brown onion, cut into halves
1 fresh tomato, cut into halves
1 zucchini, cut into pieces
2 garlic cloves
1 dried bay leaf (optional)
1 – 2 sprigs fresh basil, leaves only
1 – 2 sprigs fresh sage, leaves only
1 – 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves only
8 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves only
150 g rock salt
1 tbsp olive oil
Finely chop everything – then cook out for 30 mins and blend – if adding parmesan do it at the end or it will burn on bottom