Simple Way to Prepare Ultimate Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Green Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Prepare 1 White or yellow onion
3. Take 3-4 Whole chives
4. Get 1 teaspoon cumin
5. Prepare 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
6. Prepare to taste Salt
7. Make ready 5 cloves garlic (optional)
8. Make ready 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
9. Get Water to cover ingredients
10. Get 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
11. Make ready 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
12. Prepare 1/4 cup Green peas
13. Make ready 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
14. Make ready 1/2 cup green beans
15. Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
16. Take 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!

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