Western Style Lentil Soup
Western Style Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, western style lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Middle Eastern Lebanese lentil soup recipe. One of my favourite things about making this Lebanese lentil soup is that it uses a very cheap ingredient - the lentil. Just consider the fact that this Lebanese lentil soup, or any Middle Eastern yellow lentil soup for that matter, would cost you a fortune in a typical Middle Eastern restaurant.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Western Style Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
  1. Make ready 2 Bay leaves
  2. Make ready Lentils (orange and green)
  3. Take Corn
  4. Make ready Lemon (cut in half)
  5. Make ready 1 Potato
  6. Prepare 1 Carrot
  7. Take 2 tomato
  8. Take 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
  9. Make ready 2 pieces Ginger
  10. Prepare Olive oil
  11. Make ready Chopped garlic
  12. Prepare Brown sugar
  13. Take basil herbs

Whether you're looking to lighten up your meals or warm up with a steaming bowl of soup, this healthy lentil soup recipe is for you! Use green lentils, red lentils, brown lentils or a lentil soup mix. All it takes is a hint of spice flavourings, bay leaves and finishing it off with a touch of lemon to elevate this soup. Lentil soup is a staple soup in the Middle East.

Instructions to make Western Style Lentil Soup:
  1. Boil water for the soup base
  2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
  3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
  4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
  5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
  6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
  7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
  8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
  9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
  10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
  11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
  12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
  13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
  14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
  15. Add basil herbs
  16. Let it boil
  17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
  18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
  19. Cook with lid slightly opened
  20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
  21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
  22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
  23. Add corn into the pot
  24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
  25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
  26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
  27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
  28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

It is made with the same lentils that us Southeast Asians use for daal but made the way classic soups are made. It is made light and fresh with freshly squeezed lemon juice and fresh parsley. Middle Eastern Lentil Soup Recipe - just a few basic ingredients to make this delicious, flavorful and nutritious soup. Great as a side soup or a light meal. Packed with Middle Eastern flavors, due to the combination of two very distinct spices - turmeric and cumin.

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