Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, thick carrot and lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Today's soup uses that soup as the base but adds in carrots along with a few additional ingredients. The carrots compliment the tomatoes and lentils nicely, bringing a sweet flavor to the soup. One of my favorite things about this soup is that you can freeze half for later. Try our spicy carrot and lentil soup.
Thick carrot and lentil soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Thick carrot and lentil soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have thick carrot and lentil soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Thick carrot and lentil soup:
- Make ready 4 medium carrots
- Get 1 large onion
- Make ready 3 clove of garlic
- Get 1 tbsp veg oil
- Take 1 pints water or veg stock (approx)
- Make ready 2 cup red lentils
- Make ready 1 tsp butter (optional)
- Make ready 1 salt and pepper to taste
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric (optional)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground coriander (optional)
- Make ready 1 pinch ground cumin (optional)
Without the proper spices, veggie soups can be a bit bland but your. I make this soup with lentils, carrots, turmeric, and fresh lemon whenever I'm in need of some healthy comfort food. Lentils — I use brown, red, or French lentils to make the soup and add them uncooked. The lentils cook up to be soft, plus I love the nutritional benefits of lentils.
Instructions to make Thick carrot and lentil soup:
- Peel and coarsely chop carrots, onion and garlic.
- Add all to pan with oil and fry for 3-4 mins.
- Add stock/water and increase heat to boil.
- Rinse lentils then add to pan.
- Add spices now if including them.
- Boil for 10 mins then simmer for 20-30 mins until lentils and carrots are soft and cooked, stirring often.
- Add butter if you're using it.
- Depending on how thick you like soup, you may need to add more hot water/stock.
- Blend until smooth, (season with salt and pepper if required) and serve.
Lentils — I use brown, red, or French lentils to make the soup and add them uncooked. The lentils cook up to be soft, plus I love the nutritional benefits of lentils. I cook this using a pressure cooker to save time, you can cook it in a regular pan, however, it will take. A luxuriously thick and spicy carrot, lentil and kale soup. Keep the leftovers in the fridge or freeze them for another day.
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