Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Get 1 Red bell pepper
- Take 1 White or yellow onion
- Take 3-4 Whole chives
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Make ready 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Get 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Get 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Prepare 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Make ready 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Make ready 1/4 cup Green peas
- Prepare 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Get 1/2 cup green beans
- Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Make ready 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:
- 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!
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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