Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Prepare 1 Red bell pepper
- Get 1 White or yellow onion
- Take 3-4 Whole chives
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Take 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Get 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Prepare 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Get 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Make ready 1/4 cup Green peas
- Get 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
- Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Make ready 1/4 cup sweet corn
You start off by gently cooking the onion, garlic, celery and carrot, then you tip in the dried lentils and tomato puree. 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. Add in lentils, stock, and tomatoes w/ juice; bring to a boil.
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!
All it takes is a hint of spice flavourings, bay leaves and finishing it off with a touch of lemon to elevate this soup. 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. Bless lentils for their capacity to be cheap, healthy and comforting all at the same time.
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