Western Style Lentil Soup

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Add the onion, carrots, and celery. Add onions, carrots, and celery; cook and stir until onion is tender. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

I cook with lentils often because they're a nutritious, inexpensive source of protein. This low-fat soup is one of my favorite ways to use them. To make it even heartier, add ground beef, cooked sausage or leftover cubed chicken. —Rachel Keller, Roanoke, Virginia. The original title of this recipe was "Spiced Vegan Lentil Soup," which is accurate, but a mouthful.

Instructions 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

To make it even heartier, add ground beef, cooked sausage or leftover cubed chicken. —Rachel Keller, Roanoke, Virginia. The original title of this recipe was "Spiced Vegan Lentil Soup," which is accurate, but a mouthful. Whether you're looking to lighten up your meals or warm up with a steaming bowl of soup, this healthy lentil soup recipe is for you! SPICY AND FULL OF GOODNESS, A DELICIOUS LENTIL SOUP WITH MIDDLE EASTERN FLAVORS! Every time I cook this lentil soup, Jordan and the Middle East come to mind.

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