Simple Way to Prepare Award-winning Western Style Lentil Soup
by Jay Spencer
Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, western style lentil soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Western Style Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
Get 2 Bay leaves
Prepare Lentils (orange and green)
Get Corn
Prepare Lemon (cut in half)
Take 1 Potato
Take 1 Carrot
Make ready 2 tomato
Prepare 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
Take 2 pieces Ginger
Make ready Olive oil
Make ready Chopped garlic
Take Brown sugar
Get basil herbs
Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
Boil water for the soup base
Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
Cut 2 pieces of ginger
Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
Pan fry the chopped garlic
Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
Add basil herbs
Let it boil
Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
Cook with lid slightly opened
Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
Add corn into the pot
After adding the corn, taste the soup
Add 1tsp of soy sauce
Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice
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