New Mommy Lentil Mess

New Mommy Curried Lentil Mess

1 cup lentils, rinsed

1 can crushed tomatoes

1 package frozen spinach

1 t turmeric

1 t cumin

2 t curry powder

1/2 t ground ginger

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 t fresh ginger, grated

1 small onion, chopped

1 medium zucchini, chopped

salt, to taste

1/4 t stevia (or other sweetener, to taste)

Rice, for serving

Laughing Cow Wedges, or cream cheese

Throw all ingredients, except zucchini and rice, in a slow cooker. Dump in enough water to fill your empty can of tomatoes, twice.  Come to think of it, you could add the rice in the beginning and it would cook along, but I was out of rice and had to go buy it, so it got cooked separately.

Cook on low for 8 hours, adding the zucchini in the last hour, along with salt and sweetener.  Zucchini is optional – I had one that needed to be used.

Serve with rice, and mix a wedge of laughing cow into each bowl.  Garnish with: Tomatoes, Cilantro, Sour cream, Cottage Cheese (Austin’s gets mixed with a good amount of cottage cheese), plain yogurt…. or anything else that sounds good!  Copious amount of hot sauce optional.  If you aren’t serving this to kids, I would add 1/4 – 1/2 t cayenne to spice it up a bit.

Easy, super tasty, little clean up, and used up that pesky box of spinach. A winner!

Lentil goopiness shown with our “congrats on new baby” flowers