Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
This soup is both delicious and very easy to make. The curry gives it a flavor unlike any other green lentil/split pea soup I have ever had. I have made this soup several times already and cannot get enough of it.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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 1 Red bell pepper
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Make ready 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Take Water to cover ingredients
- Prepare 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Take 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Prepare 1/4 cup Green peas
- Get 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Prepare 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Make ready 1/4 cup sweet corn
Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon. 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.
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!
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. This Green Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk and Indian Spices is bursting with flavor from coconut milk, toasted spices, and ghee. Red lentils work best for this soup, as they cook quickly but not too quickly, and they break down a bit in the broth, adding to the soup's creamy texture.
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