Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Green Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
Creamy and hearty soups such as curry lentil soup and chicken lentil soup are perfect for any day of the week and lighter soups like this Turkish red lentil soup, can be served as a nice appetizer. This green lentil soup is another one of our go-to recipes when we crave comfort and heartiness in a single bowl! Add in lentils, stock, and tomatoes w/ juice; bring to a boil. Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Make ready 1 Red bell pepper
- Take 1 White or yellow onion
- Prepare 3-4 Whole chives
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Get 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Make ready 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Take 1/4 cup Green peas
- Take 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Take 1/4 cup sweet corn
Add olive oil to a large Dutch oven and heat over medium heat. Cook approximately six or seven minutes, or until the onions are translucent. Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes. When ready to serve stir in spinach, and cook until it wilts.
Instructions 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!
Stir in lentils, and add water and tomatoes. When ready to serve stir in spinach, and cook until it wilts. Of course, you can't have lentil soup without the lentils! I went with green lentils, but you could also sub other varieties if you'd like (just adjust cooking time accordingly). And if you're not a lentil fan, you could always sub cooked beans, such as white beans or chickpeas - both would be lovely here.
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