Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Green Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Green Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Prepare 1 Red bell pepper
- Prepare 1 White or yellow onion
- Make ready 3-4 Whole chives
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Make ready 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Get Water to cover ingredients
- Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Prepare 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Take 1/4 cup Green peas
- Make ready 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Get 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Take 1/4 cup sweet corn
The French green lentils hold their shape better when cooked, while brown lentils will start to break down a bit. Add in lentils, stock, and tomatoes w/ juice; bring to a boil. Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon.
Instructions to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely.
- Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt
- Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, lower flame to Med low and remove onion, whole tomato, chives, and red pepper from pot and set aside to mix in blender.
- Stir lentils and taste water to check if desired salt level has been achieved. If not, we can add more salt after blending remaining ingredients.
- Take ingredients we set aside (red pepper, tomato, chives, onion) and add to blender (or food processor) and make a purée with these ingredients. Add salt if desired then add purée back to lentils stirring to combine and simmer on medium for another 20 minutes or until lentils are at desired tenderness.
- Serve with rice or bread!
Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon. Use green lentils, red lentils, brown lentils or a lentil soup mix. All it takes is a hint of spice flavourings, bay leaves and finishing it off with a touch of lemon to elevate this soup. Bless lentils for their capacity to be cheap, healthy and comforting all at the same time.
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