Vegan Lentil Curry Recipe - Irresistible One Pot Recipe {Gluten-free} (2024)

Last Updated on April 21, 2021 By Vicky 50 Comments

Vegan lentil curry with tomatoes makes for the perfect meatless one pot dinner ready in 30 minutes. Requiring only kitchen staples, a few spices and the star ingredients – red lentils, coconut milk and canned tomatoes. This is a dish you’ll be making over and over again. Gluten-Free too.Vegan lentil curry for dinner again… Ok, so I’ve been cooking with red lentils a lot lately.

And I mean all the time.

Guess that must be what happens when you buy a 2 pound bag of red lentils and have 3 weeks to consume the whole lot. Well, technically I could take it with me after this first bout of house-sitting in Costa Rica is over, but my backpack is pretty full already.

And the lentils could spill all over my stuff. Not worth risking it.

So I’ve been making a lot of curries and soups. Most of my inspiration comes from previous recipes – including my vegan red lentil curry, vegan red lentil soup, vegan Thai red lentil soup, vegan red lentil sweet potato curry, etc, etc.

This time around we’re adding tomatoes and curry powder into the mix. I’m all about the Thai curries, but I rarely bring curry powder into my recipes.

That’s about to change. It’s such an awesome spice that adds a whole depth of flavor. I’ve seriously been missing out by not using it enough – that needs to change.

Honestly this vegan lentil curry was intended to be a soup. At least that’s what I was expecting. Until of course I came over, lifted the lid off the pot and realized most of the liquid had been absorbed already.

Whoops. That;s why it’s better to keep an eye on your food when you’re cooking! Lesson learned — or better yet, lesson not learned since this actually turned out even better than had been intended! I’ll take a vegan lentil curry over a soup anyday!

Curry for dinner instead. Don’t you just love the flexibility and versatility in cooking?

Either way this vegan lentil curry with tomatoes makes for a perfect meatless one pot meal that is ready in 30 minutes. Don’t you just love minimal clean up cooking when everything cooks in one pot? Ok, technically you need a second pot for the quinoa, but I might be assuming you already had some leftover quinoa on hand any way? Could it be?

With this vegan lentil curry you just add the ingredients in stages and you have time to prepare everything as you go. For this recipe you just need a handful of kitchen staples, a few key spices and the stars of the dish – red lentils, coconut milk and canned tomatoes. If you do not have curry powder on hand you could make this recipe with just the red curry paste, but I personally loved the additional depth of flavor created by the curry powder too. It makes this dish a fusion between Indian and Thai inspired recipes which I loved.

PS – speaking of 30 mins meals, if you’re looking for more quick recipe ideas be sure to check out my collection of recipes ready in 30 mins or less!

Other lentils recipe I love include:

• Asian Lentils Cauliflower Curry {GF, Vegan}
• Vegan Red Lentil Curry {GF}
• Vegan Cauliflower Stew with Lentils and Squash {GF}
• 10 Creamy Gluten-Free and Vegan Red Lentil Recipes

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