Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare 1 Red bell pepper
- Prepare 1 White or yellow onion
- Take 3-4 Whole chives
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Get to taste Salt
- Get 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Get 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Take Water to cover ingredients
- Make ready 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Take 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Take 1/4 cup Green peas
- Prepare 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
- Get 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Take 1/4 cup sweet corn
Steps 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!
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