Steps to Make Perfect Green Lentil Soup

Green Lentil Soup
Green Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. 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 get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Take 1 White or yellow onion
  3. Prepare 3-4 Whole chives
  4. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin
  5. Make ready 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
  6. Prepare to taste Salt
  7. Take 5 cloves garlic (optional)
  8. Make ready 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
  9. Get Water to cover ingredients
  10. Take 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
  11. Take 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
  12. Make ready 1/4 cup Green peas
  13. Take 1/4 cup diced peeled carrots
  14. Take 1/2 cup green beans
  15. Prepare 1/2-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
  16. Make ready 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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