Anna Jones's Sweet Potato Dhal recipe

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive or rapeseed oil
• 2 medium sweet potatoes, skins on, cut into 1½cm cubes
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• ½ tsp fennel seeds
• salt
• pepper
• 2 red onions, diced
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 3 inch chunk of ginger, peeled and chopped (roughly 3 tbsp)
• 2 green chillis, chopped
• 2 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 tsp coriander seeds
• 1½ tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 400g split red lentils
• 1 tin coconut milk (400ml)
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• 250g fresh spinach
• large bunch of coriander, chopped (including stalks)
• juice from 1-2 lemons
• olive or rapeseed oil
• 50g desiccated coconut (unsweetened)
• 1 tsp olive or rapeseed oil
• 1 tsp black mustard seeds
• 10 curry leaves
• 20g fresh ginger, grated
• 1 fresh red chilli, chopped