Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Green Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
This green lentil soup is another one of our go-to recipes when we crave comfort and heartiness in a single bowl! A big bowl of this simple lentil soup is pure comfort. The combination of potatoes, carrots and lentils topped with baby spinach is a delightful paring!
To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
- Take Red bell pepper
- Prepare White or yellow onion
- Take Whole chives
- Prepare cumin
- Prepare or 3g of Green lentils
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare garlic (optional)
- Make ready tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Get Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Prepare Sofrito cooking base
- Make ready Green peas
- Get diced peeled carrots
- Get green beans
- Prepare yellow squash (calabaza)
- Make ready sweet corn
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.
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!
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. Having lived in Spain and enjoyed true lentil soup, I thought I'd never again appreciate an american version. These small green lentils hold their shape when cooked and thicken the soup without turning it to sludge (which is, sadly, the fate of most lentil soups).
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