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Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, western style lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Western Style Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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. You can reduce the cooking time when soaking them the evening before in water, and let them sit over night.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Make ready 2 Bay leaves
2. Make ready Lentils (orange and green)
3. Make ready Corn
4. Get Lemon (cut in half)
5. Prepare 1 Potato
6. Prepare 1 Carrot
7. Prepare 2 tomato
8. Take 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
9. Make ready 2 pieces Ginger
10. Take Olive oil
11. Take Chopped garlic
12. Make ready Brown sugar
13. Take basil herbs

Having lived in Spain and enjoyed true lentil soup, I thought I'd never again appreciate an american version. Lentil soup is a staple soup in the Middle East. It is made with the same lentils that us Southeast Asians use for daal but made the way classic soups are made. It is made light and fresh with freshly squeezed lemon juice and fresh parsley.

Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Boil water for the soup base
2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
15. Add basil herbs
16. Let it boil
17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
19. Cook with lid slightly opened
20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
23. Add corn into the pot
24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

It is made with the same lentils that us Southeast Asians use for daal but made the way classic soups are made. It is made light and fresh with freshly squeezed lemon juice and fresh parsley. In a soup pot heat the olive oil on medium and add the onions, carrots celery and garlic. Sauté until the onion is translucent. Add the lentils and bring to a boil and cook until the vegetables are soft.

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