Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, my gran's lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Boil the water, add the stock cubes. Once they have dissolved, add the lentils and simmer. Whilst the lentils are simmering, chop the potatoes first and add to the lentils, then the carrots and lastly the leek. Great recipe for My Gran's Lentil Soup.
My Gran's Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. My Gran's Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my gran's lentil soup using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make My Gran's Lentil Soup:
- Take 200 g red lentils
- Take 1 chopped onion
- Make ready 4 chopped carrots
- Prepare 2 veg stock cubes
- Make ready 2-3 bay leaves
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Prepare 4 potatoes and butter for mashing
- Prepare to taste Salt
Heat olive oil in a large stock pot over medium heat. The German lentil soup is a classic among all German soups. We tried out several options: Using lentils from a can and dried ones. We came to the conclusion: Dried lentils are the best.
Instructions to make My Gran's Lentil Soup:
- Soak lentils according to instructions. Bring to the boil a big pot of water. When it reaches the boil add chopped onion, bay leaves, cloves and stock cubes. Leave to simmer for about 15 minutes while you prepare the carrots and potatoes
- Start to boil potatoes, add carrots and lentils to the stock. Simmer soup for about 30 mins while potatoes cook. Add salt to soup and check for taste
- Mash the potatoes once ready with a knob of butter. Put a ball of mash in the middle of a bowl. Remove the cloves and bay leaves. Pour soup around it. Serve with bread and butter if you fancy 😊
We tried out several options: Using lentils from a can and dried ones. We came to the conclusion: Dried lentils are the best. You can reduce the cooking time when soaking them the evening before in water, and let them sit over night. Just just need to boil them the other day in the. My grandma always made lentil soup with lemon juice.
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