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Crockpot Sweet Potato Lentils

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How about I throw some things in the crockpot and make a recipe with it? Like these sweet potato lentils? Sounds about right these days. By the way, what is this recipe? I know. It’s a little obscure. It’s soup meets stew meets dhal meets can’t spend more than 5 minutes making dinner. But I even though I made it on a whim, it turned out to be like, really good. It’s basically spiced sweet potatoes and baby red lentils, simmered together and creamified with coconut milk to make an almost-soup that goes perfectly over warm naan. Which I ate so I have none left for my picture. I bought a jumbo bag of masoor dal (aka cutie pie little red lentils) at the international food store 6 months ago, and good thing I did because thing lentils never go bad. Well, they probably do at some point, buuuut do they really? I first met/fell in love with little red lentils when we were in the Philippines. Less because Filipinos eat so many lentils (although monggos, yes. and rightly so.) and more because I ...