Green Lentil Soup
Green Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Green Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
  1. Make ready 1 Red bell pepper
  2. Make ready 1 White or yellow onion
  3. Make ready 3-4 Whole chives
  4. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin
  5. Make ready 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
  6. Take to taste Salt
  7. Take 5 cloves garlic (optional)
  8. Prepare 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
  9. Prepare Water to cover ingredients
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
  11. Take 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
  12. Make ready 1/4 cup Green peas
  13. Prepare 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
  15. Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
  16. Take 1/4 cup sweet corn

Lentils are coupled with vegetables for this family-friendly lentil soup. Topped with spinach and a splash of vinegar, this is the perfect weekday dinner. Of course, you can't have lentil soup without the lentils! I went with green lentils, but you could also sub other varieties if you'd like (just adjust cooking time accordingly).

Steps to make Green Lentil Soup:
  1. Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely.
  2. Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt
  3. Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Serve with rice or bread!

Of course, you can't have lentil soup without the lentils! I went with green lentils, but you could also sub other varieties if you'd like (just adjust cooking time accordingly). And if you're not a lentil fan, you could always sub cooked beans, such as white beans or chickpeas - both would be lovely here. Thick, flavorful lentil soup is budget-friendly and full of nutrients. Stir up a batch with one of Food Network's most-popular lentil soup recipes, and make it a favorite in your repertoire.

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