Green Lentil Soup
Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Creamy and hearty soups such as curry lentil soup and chicken lentil soup are perfect for any day of the week and lighter soups like this Turkish red lentil soup, can be served as a nice appetizer. This green lentil soup is another one of our go-to recipes when we crave comfort and heartiness in a single bowl! Add in lentils, stock, and tomatoes w/ juice; bring to a boil. Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Green Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

Add olive oil to a large Dutch oven and heat over medium heat. Cook approximately six or seven minutes, or until the onions are translucent. Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes. When ready to serve stir in spinach, and cook until it wilts.

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!

Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes. When ready to serve stir in spinach, and cook until it wilts. 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.

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