Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, western style lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Add the onion, carrots, and celery. Add onions, carrots, and celery; cook and stir until onion is tender. 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.
Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Western Style Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Make ready 2 Bay leaves
- Make ready Lentils (orange and green)
- Make ready Corn
- Take Lemon (cut in half)
- Prepare 1 Potato
- Make ready 1 Carrot
- Take 2 tomato
- Make ready 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
- Get 2 pieces Ginger
- Take Olive oil
- Prepare Chopped garlic
- Take Brown sugar
- Get basil herbs
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. The original title of this recipe was "Spiced Vegan Lentil Soup," which is accurate, but a mouthful.
Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
- Boil water for the soup base
- Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
- Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
- Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
- Cut 2 pieces of ginger
- Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
- After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
- Pan fry the chopped garlic
- Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
- Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
- Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
- Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
- Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
- Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
- Add basil herbs
- Let it boil
- Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
- Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
- Cook with lid slightly opened
- Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
- This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
- The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
- Add corn into the pot
- After adding the corn, taste the soup
- Add 1tsp of soy sauce
- Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
- Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
- Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice
To make it even heartier, add ground beef, cooked sausage or leftover cubed chicken. —Rachel Keller, Roanoke, Virginia. The original title of this recipe was "Spiced Vegan Lentil Soup," which is accurate, but a mouthful. Whether you're looking to lighten up your meals or warm up with a steaming bowl of soup, this healthy lentil soup recipe is for you! 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.
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