Recipe of Ultimate Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Green Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. Get 1 Red bell pepper
2. Make ready 1 White or yellow onion
3. Take 3-4 Whole chives
4. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin
5. Get 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
6. Get to taste Salt
7. Get 5 cloves garlic (optional)
8. Take 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
9. Prepare Water to cover ingredients
10. Get 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
11. Prepare 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
12. Make ready 1/4 cup Green peas
13. Get 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
14. Take 1/2 cup green beans
15. Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
16. Get 1/4 cup sweet corn

Instructions to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely.
2. Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt
3. Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Serve with rice or bread!

So that’s going to wrap it up for this special food green lentil soup recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m sure you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!