Green Lentil Soup
Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

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

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

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