Now begins the fresquito increasingly crave more creams, but here we bring you a very versatile recipe, because we like to give you different ideas and if you can give us a recipe game… Better and better!

These same ingredients can prepare a cream or red lentil dip snacks. further, the first you can be very handy if you have to bring Tupperware to work and the dip can also use it as a snack mid-morning or mid-afternoon.

We used red lentils, it is likely that ye lately I heard a lot of them, no wonder, is a variety of lentils that we love for various reasons: it is not necessary to soak them beforehand, which it is very comfortable to cook them at the time; They are heading, so the cooking time is somewhat smaller and are much more digestible than other types of vegetables.

INGREDIENTS

• 200g dried red lentils
• 80g carrots
• 1 leek (the white part)
• 200g of cooked beet
• 1 canned coconut milk (400g)
• 100g walnuts
• 30g olive oil Extra viergen (Äôve)
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 tablespoon curry powder (or to taste)
• black pepper to taste
• 300g water (approximately)

PREPARATION cream or dip of red lentils

1. In a pot we put olive oil, but we keep a little (about 10g) for later. medium heat.
2. Once the oil is hot add leek, sliced (You do not need to be very thin) and carrot cut into pieces. Fry and turning down the heat a little to be pochen and we do not burn.
3. The oil had booked mix it with turmeric (This is because turmeric best seen their properties when mixed with fat) and add to the pot.
4. Add the red lentils and removing the remaining ingredients except beet, nuts and water. We follow medium heat.
5. When we see that starts to evaporate coconut milk, and thus begins to thicken, add water and let cook for about 25 minutes. Until we see that the duckweed is made. Note: The amount of water and time can vary depending on where ye cooking or type of fire.
6. A little before the end of cooking add chopped beet (It needs not be small pieces because then we will crush all).
7. Once finished, we introduce it in the blender and add the nuts. Grind at maximum speed for 1 minute.
8. At this step, the thickness it takes us is the dip that we talked about at the beginning, You can take it a crudités, nachos,…
9. But if what you want is to get a cream, then we just have to add water to taste to make it lighter and beat us again to mix.