Steps to Make Perfect Easy Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, easy lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Easy Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Easy Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook easy lentil soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Instructions 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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