Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Take 1 Red bell pepper
- Get 1 White or yellow onion
- Prepare 3-4 Whole chives
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Get 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Take 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Get Water to cover ingredients
- Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Get 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Get 1/4 cup Green peas
- Get 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Get 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Prepare 1/4 cup sweet corn
In general, lentils make a great addition to your meals. 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.
Steps 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!
Lentils seem to go well with just about anything, and here they play well with a collection of greens and some cumin and coriander to add a gentle spicy note to this soup recipe. The result is a hearty winter soup with layers of flavor. Both French green lentils (available in natural-foods stores and specialty markets) and more commonly available brown lentils are delicious in this soup. 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.
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