Prep time: 5 mins Cooking time: 40 mins
Serves: 5
* If you don't like it spicy, skip the fresh chilli and chilli flakes.
What you need:
2 medium sized sweet potatoes, chopped into cubes
I cup carrots, chopped into small pieces
1 cup green peas
1 fresh hot chilli, sliced
1 cup lentils
1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium diced onion
3 cups vegetable stock
3 cups water
1/2 tspn chilli flakes
1 tspn garlic powder
1 tspn ground basil
1 tspn ground black pepper
Method:
- Over low heat, add oil, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, chilli, spices and herbs into a large pot and stir until mixed well.
- Add peas, lentils, water and stock. Raise heat then bring to boil.
- Reduce heat back to low and simmer for 1 hour.
- Serve.
But where's the salt coming from? Stock Cubes, yes dear friends, stock cubes are a high salt product contributing a whopping 90% of salt in this dish. Now do you really think you need to add extra salt. No you do not.
But what about the sugars? Onions, they are contributing 60% of the total sugars in this dish, with sweet potatoes coming in at second place contributing 18% of the total sugars.
Hope you're having a wonderful week!
Nokhuthula xo
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