Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:
- Make ready 1 Red bell pepper
- Prepare 1 White or yellow onion
- Take 3-4 Whole chives
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Get 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare 5 cloves garlic (optional)
- Take 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
- Prepare Water to cover ingredients
- Get 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
- Make ready 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
- Prepare 1/4 cup Green peas
- Prepare 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
- Prepare 1/2 cup green beans
- Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
- Make ready 1/4 cup sweet corn
Instructions 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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