Simple Way to Make Award-winning Easy Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, easy lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Easy Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy lentil soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Lentil Soup:

1. Prepare lentils, washed and picked over
2. Make ready water, or vegetable broth and water combination
3. Make ready chopped celery
4. Make ready chopped carrot
5. Prepare green onion, chopped
6. Make ready onion, chopped
7. Make ready garlic, chopped
8. Get dried herbs (oregano, thyme blend)
9. Prepare ground cumin
10. Make ready curry powder
11. Prepare butter
12. Take olive oil
13. Make ready salt, (I ended up adding a little more as I kept adding broth/water. adjust accordingly to your liking)
14. Take pepper

Steps to make Easy Lentil Soup:

1. Chop up green onion, onion, garlic, celery, and carrot.
2. Add olive oil and butter to large pot and heat on medium-low. When you see it start slightly bubbling, add in onions, celery, garlic, and carrots.
3. Let it all simmer about 3 to 5 minutes or until translucent and fragrant. Add in cumin, herbs, curry, a good pinch of salt, and pepper. Let it simmer another couple of minutes.
4. Add in lentils and stir frequently to coat with the vegetable spice mixture for a couple minutes.
5. Add in water, cover, and reduce heat to low. Let it cook for about 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are tender and a nice flavor has developed. You will need to give it a stir about every 10 minutes and check on the amount of water. You may want more or less depending on if you want something more soupy or more like a stew consistency. I added in a couple cups of water/broth at a time until I had the consistency I liked. Enjoy!

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