Instant Pot Curried Coconut Lentil Soup
This extremely flavorful and creamy soup will be your new favorite to make in your pressure cooker!
Servings 4
Calories 310kcal
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon ginger paste
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 3/4 cup dried red split lentils
- 1 13.5- ounce can unsweetened full fat coconut milk
- 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 cups water
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 14.5- ounce can crushed tomatoes
Instructions
- Press sauté on the front of your 6-quart Instant Pot. In the insert, add the onion, garlic, ginger paste, curry powder, crushed red pepper flakes, lentils, coconut milk, water, salt, and pepper. Stir to mix then let it come up to a simmer then press cancel. Immediately add the can of crushed tomatoes LAST and on top of everything else and do not stir it in. Pressure cookers seem to not like tomatoes for some reason and you will often times get a BURN notice. If you don't stir the tomatoes in and just let it sit on top, you should be fine.
- Close the lid of the pressure cooker and make sure that the vent is set to sealing.
- Using the manual function, use high pressure and set the cook time to 15 minutes.
- Once the soup has finished cooking, let sit for 15 minutes before you quick release the pressure. You can choose to either quick release it or let it naturally release, depending on how hungry you are or when dinner is!
- Divide evenly into bowls and garnish with parsley or cilantro on top.
Notes
Many have mentioned that they get the BURN notice with lentils in pressure cookers. By bringing the mixture up to a simmer, in step 1, prior to closing the lid helps the pressure cooker heat up so it doesn't have to do as much "heat up work" during the "come to pressure" process. So helping it out before throwing the lid on should help with the burn message.
After about 15 minutes, my lentils were more on the 'mushy' side. If you don't like your lentils like that, I would reduce the cook time to 12 minutes.
Inspired by Yotam Ottolenghi
*Nutrition facts are an estimate and not guaranteed to be accurate.
Nutrition Facts
Instant Pot Curried Coconut Lentil Soup
Amount Per Serving
Calories 310
Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Fat 16g25%
Saturated Fat 13g65%
Carbohydrates 31g10%
Fiber 7g28%
Sugar 6g7%
Protein 10g20%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition
Calories: 310kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 6g