Thick carrot and lentil soup
Thick carrot and lentil soup

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, thick carrot and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Thick carrot and lentil soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Thick carrot and lentil soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Today's soup uses that soup as the base but adds in carrots along with a few additional ingredients. The carrots compliment the tomatoes and lentils nicely, bringing a sweet flavor to the soup. One of my favorite things about this soup is that you can freeze half for later.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook thick carrot and lentil soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Thick carrot and lentil soup:
  1. Prepare 4 medium carrots
  2. Make ready 1 large onion
  3. Make ready 3 clove of garlic
  4. Take 1 tbsp veg oil
  5. Prepare 1 pints water or veg stock (approx)
  6. Get 2 cup red lentils
  7. Make ready 1 tsp butter (optional)
  8. Prepare 1 salt and pepper to taste
  9. Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric (optional)
  10. Take 1/4 tsp ground coriander (optional)
  11. Prepare 1 pinch ground cumin (optional)

Without the proper spices, veggie soups can be a bit bland but your. wonderful soup, low fat, easy and cheap. PS: If you make my curried carrot and lentil soup, don't forget to tag me on Instagram as @lazycatkitchen and use the #lazycatkitchen hashtag. I love seeing your takes on my recipes! Not only is this Carrot and Lentil soup cheap, easy to make and healthy, you can eat tons of vegetables in one bowl without really even realising it.

Steps to make Thick carrot and lentil soup:
  1. Peel and coarsely chop carrots, onion and garlic.
  2. Add all to pan with oil and fry for 3-4 mins.
  3. Add stock/water and increase heat to boil.
  4. Rinse lentils then add to pan.
  5. Add spices now if including them.
  6. Boil for 10 mins then simmer for 20-30 mins until lentils and carrots are soft and cooked, stirring often.
  7. Add butter if you're using it.
  8. Depending on how thick you like soup, you may need to add more hot water/stock.
  9. Blend until smooth, (season with salt and pepper if required) and serve.

If it starts to look a little thick, add a little more water. I make this soup with lentils, carrots, turmeric, and fresh lemon whenever I'm in need of some healthy comfort food. Lentils — I use brown, red, or French lentils to make the soup and add them uncooked. The lentils cook up to be soft, plus I love the nutritional benefits of lentils. Roasting carrots brings out their natural sweetness.

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