Lentil soup

wendym

I do spiced carrot and lentil too, but I avoid grating by boiling the carrots with a potato (for a bit of body) then use a potato masher so it doesn't go completely smooth. You can add milk as well.

Red lentils also go well with tinned toms in a soup. Onion, of course, then whatever seasoning you fancy. Last time I used up a tired red pepper as well, and added some paprika and Lea and Perrins.

And I've used lentils boiled to a pulp as the main liquid, adding onion, Indian spices and a tin of chick peas.

I can never make the same soup twice, cos I'm not at all careful about quantities.

Sazbo

Hi, how about:

Curried Lentil Soup

Curried lentil and lime soup

Spicy Lentil Soup


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lynzpower

perfect Sazbo- ill dothe bottom one! :j when I have 5 mins

EMPTY_PURSE_5

Hoping you can all help ...

Saw a recipe within the last two weeks for red lentil soup, so went out and bought a bigger back of lentils and some cumin as that was the only ingredients I remembered when at the shops.

Unfortunately I now cannot find the paper/magazine that the recipe was in !!!!

Can anyone help

(ps also bought a butternut squash the other day and would like to try and make soup with that ... off work for a long weekend so plenty time to experiment)

Biddyrolo

I made some lentil and bacon soup yesterday:

12oz red lentils (soaked for 30 mins)
2 onions chopped
3 carrots diced
3 celery sticks (I left these out as I didn't have any)
bay leaf
1 1/2 litres water
2 garlic cloves
4 rashers smoked bacon cut up small.
Heat up some oil and fry the bacon, add the veg and soften for 5-10 mins add rest of ingredients bring to the boil and simmer 30 mins. Zuzz with hand blender.

EMPTY_PURSE_5

Usually make soup with red lentils and a smoked ham hock with carrot, turnip and potatoes, but this soup only had about 3 ingredients in it.

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I make it lots of different ways. Just pick and mix but obviously don`t duplicate the stock

lentils
onion
carrot
tinned tomato
curry spice
butternut squash or acorn squash
sweet potato
gammon stock cube
marigold stock

I always whizz the soup and it`s always lovely with fresh hm wholemeal bread rolls

Biddyrolo

Ooh like the sound of that. If you can remember which magazine it was the recipe might be on the website, all the recipes I have are quite long. Sorry.

teedy23

I cant find a recipe for this on old style recipies
Am I about to invent it:eek: . Thinking about onion, bacon, lentils, maybe a couple of carrots and a tin of tomatoes. Does this sound like something edible:o ?

skintlass

Think I'd substitute stock for the tomatoes but apart from that it sounds ok