Green Lentil Soup
Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Green Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
  1. Make ready 1 Red bell pepper
  2. Take 1 White or yellow onion
  3. Take 3-4 Whole chives
  4. Take 1 teaspoon cumin
  5. Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
  6. Make ready to taste Salt
  7. Prepare 5 cloves garlic (optional)
  8. Take 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
  9. Get Water to cover ingredients
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
  11. Take 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
  12. Prepare 1/4 cup Green peas
  13. Prepare 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
  14. Take 1/2 cup green beans
  15. Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
  16. Get 1/4 cup sweet corn

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. Use green lentils, red lentils, brown lentils or a lentil soup mix.

Instructions to make Green Lentil Soup:
  1. Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely.
  2. Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt
  3. Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Serve with rice or bread!

Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon. 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. While I love the flavor that bacon lends to this soup, if you don't eat pork or are a vegetarian, you can omit the bacon. What always amazes me about this humble Green Lentil Soup is how a few ingredients can create something so damn tasty and soul-warming.

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