Funky Vegetarian Lentil Soup

"I was checking out some recipes for lentil soup on Zaar but I just kept adding things to the pot. This is the result! I'm pretty sure it's vegtarian, anyway! The spices are VERY approximate, I just throw stuff in until it's to my liking."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
10
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ingredients

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directions

  • Roughly chop the garlic, carrots, and onion.
  • Heat a large saucepan and add olive oil.
  • Heat the olive oil until it moves quickly across the pan.
  • Add the garlic, carrots, onion, cayenne, bayleaf, salt, paprika, and thyme.
  • Sauté for approximately five minutes or until fragrant.
  • Add the lentils and give a good stir so that they are coated along with the veggies.
  • Add 4 cups water, reserving the rest in case the soup becomes too thick.
  • Bring to a boil, then simmer for approximately 35 minutes.
  • Take off the heat, and blend soup with an immersion blender or with a stand blender. (If using a countertop blender, blend in batches and be sure to vent the cover!).
  • Adjust seasonings as needed.

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Reviews

  1. Delicious, simple soup. Thank you so much!
     
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I am a graduate student living, teaching, and studying in France for a year. I love cooking, especially baking, but I don't agree with all that jazz about how you need to be SOOOO careful with your ingredients and measuring and all that when baking. If I were making a millefeuille, yeah, I'd be freaked, but cookies and cakes and muffins are no biggie. Who cares if you don't beat it exactly two minutes? Argh, renegade cook! I have a very beaten, battered copy of Jane Garmey's fab Great British Cooking, although I just cannot bring myself to do the lard recipes (like half the book!). It really rocks, though. I love languages and I hate it when people think they are hot stuff in another language (I'm talking to YOU, Alex Trebeck!!!) but aren't. Actually I just dislike pretentious people altogether. That includes YOU, yes YOU, the American Tourist who bumps into me (American Incognita) on the streets of Paris (which is in FRANCE, remember) and says "Sorry." Sorry? Couldn't we just say Pardon with a French accent? geesh. Also, yelling in English at people does not comprehension make. I also have a major celeb crush on Anthony Bourdain. I think it's that whole bad-boy good-girl thing. Plus he's half-French. And majorly witty. Am on the lookout for him, but he's probably reclining in a palm frond beach chair in Tahiti filming an episode. Sigh.
 
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