1 1/2 pink or red lentils
4 1/2 cups water (I used 5 and it came out too watery)
1 small yellow onion
4 garlic cloves
1 tsp minced or grated ginger
1 fresh chile serrano.
1 1/2 TBSP salt (you use salt to taste)
Lemon
1/2 brick of cream cheese
Pepper
Basil
Clean and rinse lentils, put in a pot, with water, onion, garlic, salt, ginger and chile (thin sliced) and a tsp salt. (I suggest you add the cream cheese after it started boiling)
When the lentils boil, and start to soften, balance out the water and start adding salt, pepper and basil to taste.
Once they are done, you can serve it and add lemon to taste.
It is spicy, very spicy, but the cream cheese makes it smooth to taste. The red lentils boiled fast! I mean the green ones take forever to boil. The thing with the red ones is they became mushy fast, but it didn't matter, they taste great.
This makes approximately 6 servings of half a bowl. Maybe a little more.
