Recipe: Perfect Lentil soup

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Lentil soup. In a large soup pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions, carrots, and celery; cook and stir until onion is tender. Use green lentils, red lentils, brown lentils or a lentil soup mix.

Lentil soup Pair lentils with your favorite vegetables to make this flavorful, hearty soup from Martha Stewart. There's no better way to warm up on a cold day than with a lentil soup. Add up to a cup more water if the lentil soup becomes too thick during cooking. You can cook Lentil soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lentil soup

  1. Prepare 1.5 cup of green lentil.
  2. You need 1 quart of broth.
  3. It's 1 of medium Vidalia onion.
  4. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic.
  5. It's 1 of small fresh pablano.
  6. Prepare 3 of small jalapeños.
  7. You need 2 of cayenne peppers.
  8. It's 3 of medium red potatoes.
  9. Prepare 2 of medium turnips.
  10. You need 3 cups of water.
  11. You need of balsamic vinegar.
  12. It's of juice of 1 lime.
  13. It's of salt.
  14. You need of pepper.
  15. Prepare 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
  16. It's 4 TSP of fresh oregano.
  17. Prepare 4 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
  18. It's of turnip greens.

Heat oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Thick, flavorful lentil soup is budget-friendly and full of nutrients. Stir up a batch with one of Food Network's most-popular lentil soup recipes, and make it a favorite in your repertoire. This soup recipe was a long time coming!

Lentil soup step by step

  1. Chop onion and add to hot pan with EVOO and oregano. Sweat down and add hot peppers and garlic..
  2. Add a little stock and cook through.
  3. Separately cut potatoes and turnips into cubes. Soak in water 20 min to cut starch.
  4. In separate pot, add lentils, rinse through and pour out water. Then add 3 cups water and heat to boil. Turn off heat and set aside..
  5. Once base is ready add more stock, drain and add potatoes and turnips. You can use vegan or chicken stock..
  6. Once everything is in pot, add the turnip green and leave to simmer for 1.5 hours..
  7. Add cream and cook for another 1/2 hour. Add water as needed if it cooks down to much. You can skip cream if you are vegan..
  8. You can cut anything you don't like, like hot pepperd etc. Serve delicious soup!.

Over the years, I made some lackluster lentil soups that never saw the light of day on this website. No vegetarian food blog would be complete without a proper lentil soup, though, so I perfected one of my own. Hungarian Lentil Soup, Greek Lentil Soup (Fakes), Lentil and Sausage Soup, Moroccan Lentil Soup, Coconut Lentil Soup LENTIL SOUP. This is THE lentil soup I grew up with. My mother would make this for us at least once a week, and she would add anything to it: pork, chicken or beef.