Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easy 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.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy lentil soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Lentil Soup:
- Get 1 1/2 cup lentils, washed and picked over
- Make ready 5 cup water, or vegetable broth and water combination
- Take 1/2 cup chopped celery
- Get 1/2 cup chopped carrot
- Get 1 green onion, chopped
- Take 1/2 onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 clove garlic, chopped
- Take 1 1/2 tsp dried herbs (oregano, thyme blend)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Take 1/2 tsp curry powder
- Take 1 tbsp butter
- Take 1 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 tsp salt, (I ended up adding a little more as I kept adding broth/water. adjust accordingly to your liking)
- Take pepper
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Instructions to make Easy Lentil Soup:
- Chop up green onion, onion, garlic, celery, and carrot.
- Add olive oil and butter to large pot and heat on medium-low. When you see it start slightly bubbling, add in onions, celery, garlic, and carrots.
- Let it all simmer about 3 to 5 minutes or until translucent and fragrant. Add in cumin, herbs, curry, a good pinch of salt, and pepper. Let it simmer another couple of minutes.
- Add in lentils and stir frequently to coat with the vegetable spice mixture for a couple minutes.
- Add in water, cover, and reduce heat to low. Let it cook for about 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are tender and a nice flavor has developed. You will need to give it a stir about every 10 minutes and check on the amount of water. You may want more or less depending on if you want something more soupy or more like a stew consistency. I added in a couple cups of water/broth at a time until I had the consistency I liked. Enjoy!
Lentils are popular in all cultures where a lot of beans are eaten because they are so simple to prepare. They need no soaking and they cook up in no time. This is the BEST lentil soup recipe!! It's full of amazing lemony flavor, it's naturally healthy and vegan and gluten-free, it's quick and easy to make, and SO delicious. This earthy, simple-to-make lentil soup can be embellished however you please.
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