Split Pea Curry

Vegetarian Split Pea Curry recipe. Super easy to make, this makes a great weeknight dinner idea. Can be made with either yellow or green split peas.

Hey look! I make actual food sometimes!

Food that takes freaking 2 hours to make. This is how I spent my lazy Sunday evening. Waiting for this soup to be done. Snacking all the way. But it was so worth it. Because now I have a split pea recipe that doesn’t involve ham, or doesn’t look like a green blog.

Now it just looks like an orange blob. Which somehow is far more appetising to me.

Whenever I make curries, I make them THICK. Thick enough that if you take a spoonful and tilt it 45 degrees, you won’t lose any curry. Yeah. That thick.

For this particular curry? I may have gone a little overboard on the thickness. But also overboard on the taste. In the best way possible.

I am seriously loving everything about this stew. How easy it is (even though it takes a LONG time to make), the texture and how full of flavour it is. But let’s be real here, when you put in both curry paste and curry powder, you know it’s going to turn out flavourful.

If it didn’t take so long to make, I would be making it almost every day on weekdays.

But in all seriousness, I think it’s worth it even though it takes 2 hours to make.

If you are looking through the ingredients list and thinking “what a weird sounding curry. What is evaporated milk doing in a curry recipe?

I mean, okay. I would probably be thinking the exact same thing as you. But the truth is, I really wanted to put coconut milk in mu curry, but I was all out. And evaporated milk and heavy cream (and regular milk) was all that I had. So had to work with what I had.

And I am glad it did. Even though I couldn’t make this vegan as I had intended, it made for a wonderfully warming vegetarian comfort food. Next time I make it, I will try making it vegan. But for now, I am enjoying this on our cold Toronto winters.

If you try this recipe, let me know! Rate it, leave a comment and tag me with #atasteofmadness on Instagram! I always love seeing what you are creating!

Split Pea Curry

Vegetarian Split Pea Curry recipe. Super easy to make, this makes a great weeknight dinner idea. Can be made with either yellow or green split peas.

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Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 5 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups dry split peas
• 28 oz crushed tomatoes
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 1 small onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 Tbsp red curry paste
• 1 Tbsp turmeric
• 2 tsp curry powder
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2-3 cups milk

Instructions

• Combine the split peas, crushed tomatoes, evaporated milk, onion, garlic, curry paste, turmeric, curry powder, ginger and salt in a large saucepan. Cook on medium heat for 1 hour.
• Add in the cream and 2 cups milk. Continue to cook for another hour, adding more milk if needed.
• When split peas are tender, remove from heat and serve with rice.