Imagine us wandering through the aisles of a giant hypermarché on the outskirts of Paris, my sister and I were snapping up as many jars of poudre de Colombo we can bring back home, and dreaming up a thick and saucy lentil and sweet potato stew infused with warm aromatic spices of Colombo powder.
This was last year, and we’ve made the stew a few times in the past months; my sister thankfully found a local source for Colombo curry. It has been just as we had imagined, bowlfuls of a bright and peppy stew, thick, fragrant and rich with chunky sweet potatoes and creamy toothsome lentils – it has become a weeknight staple for us during the colder months.