alanorth/recipes - recipes - Gitea: Git with a cup of tea

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons olive oil, more for drizzling
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste (or one small tomato, diced)
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• Pinch of ground chile powder or cayenne, more to taste
• 1 quart chicken or vegetable broth
• 2 cups water
• 300g dry red lentils (rinsed and soaked for thirty minutes)
• 1 large carrot, peeled and diced
• Juice of 1/2 lemon, more to taste
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro