Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
If soup gets thick add water. enjoy hot with a spoon or dip pita bread into it. as the soup cools it thickens. just heat and add water to thin again. Remove from heat and cool to lukewarm. This soup is considered to be a tradition for breaking the Ramadan fast in Egypt and is a traditional Middle Eastern peace recipe. I got this from a Middle Eastern living blog and decided to share it since I was looking for red lentil recipes.
Egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair using 13 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair:
- Make ready 1 cup red lentils
- Make ready 1 zucchini
- Prepare 1 big or 8 baby carrots
- Make ready 1 tomato
- Prepare 2 onions chopped -divided
- Prepare 1/4 packages angel hair
- Take 2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 2 tsp cumin
- Prepare 2 tsp ground corriander
- Make ready 1 water
- Prepare 3/4 cup milk
- Get 2 tbsp veg. oil
She is vegetarian, family members are not. Thinking perhaps some cooked smoked sausage in a side container for family and pan of cornbread. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. A squeeze of lemon adds brightness to each bowl!
Instructions to make Egyptian creamy lentil soup with angel hair:
- rinse the lentils well. 4 or 5 times. Add to a large pot. 4 or 5 quart pot is good.
- peel the skin of the zucchini by running a sharp knife on the skin just enough to remove the skin. cut head off and cut zucchini into 4 peices. Add to pot with lentils.
- add 8 baby carrots to pot with lentils
- add 1 chopped onion and tomato to lentils
- add enough water to cover everything in pot, you can add a little over a half an inch above everything.
- set the pot to medium heat and stir once it boils. leave for about 20 minutes until carrots get soft.
- uncover pot and leave to cool for 10 minutes. after cooled pour everything in blender and puree.
- meanwhile wash pot, dry and put 1 tablespoon oil to fry the other chopped onion. stir fry until golden. remove from pot and set aside
- add another tablespoon of oil to the same pot, and add angel hair. stir fry until light brown.be ready with the pureed lentils because angel hair darkens fast. once most angel hair is light brown pour lentils into angel hair.
- add fried onion and spices. Add milk and stir
- leave the stove on low and stir every 4 minutes until angel hair is cooked (soft). this will take about 15 to 20 minutes. If soup gets thick add water.
- enjoy hot with a spoon or dip pita bread into it.
- as the soup cools it thickens. just heat and add water to thin again.
Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. A squeeze of lemon adds brightness to each bowl! A squeeze of lemon adds brightness to each bowl! I will admit that it took several nudges from my sister, while visiting her family in Egypt, for me to order a bowl of lentil soup. Hop over to a blender, add remaining lentil mix, vegetable broth, Egyptian spice mix, salt and pepper, optional coconut milk, yogurt, tahini, tomato paste, and lemon juice to its bowl.
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