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Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, western style lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Having lived in Spain and enjoyed true lentil soup, I thought I'd never again appreciate an american version. 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. Thick, flavorful lentil soup is budget-friendly and full of nutrients.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Western Style Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Get Bay leaves
2. Prepare Lentils (orange and green)
3. Make ready Corn
4. Get Lemon (cut in half)
5. Take Potato
6. Take Carrot
7. Get tomato
8. Make ready yellow capsicum/bell pepper
9. Take Ginger
10. Prepare Olive oil
11. Make ready Chopped garlic
12. Take Brown sugar
13. Get basil herbs

I cook with lentils often because they're a nutritious, inexpensive source of protein. This low-fat soup is one of my favorite ways to use them. In a soup pot heat the olive oil on medium and add the onions, carrots celery and garlic. Sauté until the onion is translucent.

Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Boil water for the soup base
2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
15. Add basil herbs
16. Let it boil
17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
19. Cook with lid slightly opened
20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
23. Add corn into the pot
24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

In a soup pot heat the olive oil on medium and add the onions, carrots celery and garlic. Sauté until the onion is translucent. Add the lentils and bring to a boil and cook until the vegetables are soft. Pour back into the soup pot. Top with sour cream and grated cheese if desired.

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