Simple Way to Prepare Ultimate Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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