Western Style Lentil Soup
Western Style Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, western style lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Western Style Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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. In a soup pot heat the olive oil on medium and add the onions, carrots celery and garlic. Sauté until the onion is translucent.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
  1. Get 2 Bay leaves
  2. Take Lentils (orange and green)
  3. Prepare Corn
  4. Prepare Lemon (cut in half)
  5. Make ready 1 Potato
  6. Prepare 1 Carrot
  7. Make ready 2 tomato
  8. Get 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
  9. Get 2 pieces Ginger
  10. Take Olive oil
  11. Prepare Chopped garlic
  12. Make ready Brown sugar
  13. Make ready basil herbs

Top with sour cream and grated cheese if desired. SPICY AND FULL OF GOODNESS, A DELICIOUS LENTIL SOUP WITH MIDDLE EASTERN FLAVORS! Every time I cook this lentil soup, Jordan and the Middle East come to mind. This recipe is inspired by a soup we had during our trip to Petra, where we spent a wonderful evening at Petra Kitchen.

Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
  1. Boil water for the soup base
  2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
  3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
  4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
  5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
  6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
  7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
  8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
  9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
  10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
  11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
  12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
  13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
  14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
  15. Add basil herbs
  16. Let it boil
  17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
  18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
  19. Cook with lid slightly opened
  20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
  21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
  22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
  23. Add corn into the pot
  24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
  25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
  26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
  27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
  28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

Every time I cook this lentil soup, Jordan and the Middle East come to mind. This recipe is inspired by a soup we had during our trip to Petra, where we spent a wonderful evening at Petra Kitchen. I cook with lentils often because they're a nutritious, inexpensive source of protein. This low-fat soup is one of my favorite ways to use them. To make it even heartier, add ground beef, cooked sausage or leftover cubed chicken. —Rachel Keller, Roanoke, Virginia.

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