Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Prepare 1 Red bell pepper
- Take 1 White or yellow onion
- Get 3-4 Whole chives
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Prepare 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Get 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Get 1/4 cup Green peas
- Make ready 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Get 1/4 cup sweet corn
Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon. The result is a hearty winter soup with layers of flavor. Both French green lentils (available in natural-foods stores and specialty markets) and more commonly available brown lentils are delicious in this soup.
Steps 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!
The result is a hearty winter soup with layers of flavor. Both French green lentils (available in natural-foods stores and specialty markets) and more commonly available brown lentils are delicious in this soup. The French green lentils hold their shape better when cooked, while brown lentils will start to break down a bit. 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.
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