FOOD, My recipes, Uncategorized HOMEMADE LENTIL SOUP 4 August 2010

I made freakin’ Lentil Soup for dinner for Dad, Mum and Chris!! LOL.

Decided to go vegan/vegetarian and make something that was still tasty. It worked πŸ™‚ It looked like crap, no question, but it smells lovely and is actually really tasty. It’s ridiculously healthy, so healthy your bowels practically quake at the mere sight and smell of the soup. Trust me – it really does taste really yummy… and even better with a hot buttered bread roll, or a few slices of garlic bread. It’s surprisingly filling, so you really only need a medium-sized bowl and the bread to fill you right up.

Good, healthy, tasty food for pregnant women too, hehehe.


Cook diced onions, crushed garlic, leeks and carrots

Add 4 cups vegetable stock, and bring to boil

Add 450 grams rinsed lentils and simmer covered.

After 1 hour, add crushed tinned tomatoes.

Then add in broccoli and chopped potatoes, and mixed herbs, salt/pepper.
Simmer covered. Stir regularly for another 1-2 hours until lentils break apart.

Lentil soup! This one was more like a stew, I’d have added more water in retrospect.
Lovely eaten with dinner rolls or garlic bread πŸ™‚


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Oooo yeah perfect timing for you. Tip: it freezes very well, so freeze in separate containers and you can warm it back up later when you’re too lazy to go out or cook πŸ™‚

It’s dry lentils in a bag.. I ddidn’t even know you could buy pre-cooked/canned lentils! When you cook the dry lentils in the soup over a stove/heat, it takes around 2-3 hours πŸ™‚

no wonder you said its filling! you had added potatos!

uh lentils is not quite my thing! can i dun add that? but then it’ll be obviously not ‘lentil soup’ anymore.

you can add celery too!

you can try with red split lentils (they are reddish in colour) as the bean taste isn’t so ‘strong’. Pretty amazing in a soup like that which is thick and wholesome but without the carbs. I do it quite frequently (funnily enough in the same way as bev but sans potatoes and herbs, topped with shredded chicken breast that’s preboiled in the stock and lots of coriander ) πŸ™‚ . but when my housemate has it (and she loves spicy food, i throw in either some curry powder or some chopped chilli padis for good measure). πŸ™‚

Not so much the potatoes.. it’s lentils that fill you up! But yeah, you gotta add lentils for a lentil soup ya nutter πŸ˜›

Oooo yeah perfect timing for you. Tip: it freezes very well, so freeze in separate containers and you can warm it back up later when you’re too lazy to go out or cook πŸ™‚

It’s dry lentils in a bag.. I ddidn’t even know you could buy pre-cooked/canned lentils! When you cook the dry lentils in the soup over a stove/heat, it takes around 2-3 hours πŸ™‚

no wonder you said its filling! you had added potatos!

uh lentils is not quite my thing! can i dun add that? but then it’ll be obviously not ‘lentil soup’ anymore.

you can add celery too!

you can try with red split lentils (they are reddish in colour) as the bean taste isn’t so ‘strong’. Pretty amazing in a soup like that which is thick and wholesome but without the carbs. I do it quite frequently (funnily enough in the same way as bev but sans potatoes and herbs, topped with shredded chicken breast that’s preboiled in the stock and lots of coriander ) πŸ™‚ . but when my housemate has it (and she loves spicy food, i throw in either some curry powder or some chopped chilli padis for good measure). πŸ™‚

Not so much the potatoes.. it’s lentils that fill you up! But yeah, you gotta add lentils for a lentil soup ya nutter πŸ˜›