Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, yellow lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Yellow lentil soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Yellow lentil soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Stir several times during cooking to prevent the lentils from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Yellow lentils are actually orange when you buy them in the package, but they quickly turn yellow when cooked. Unlike brown lentils, they take very little time to cook.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook yellow lentil soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Yellow lentil soup:
- Make ready 2 cups yellow lentils, washed and drained
- Get 1/4 cup white rice, washed and drained
- Get 1 small potato, peeled and cut into cubes
- Take 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- Get 1/4 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Get For serving: optional
- Make ready 1 loaf pita bread, roasted
- Get 4 tablespoons lemon juice
Slow-cooked fingerling potatoes cooked in a crock-pot until soft and tender. Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the cumin, coriander, curry powder, turmeric, salt. Lentil soup is a culinary wonder.
Steps to make Yellow lentil soup:
- In a saucepan, put the lentils, potato cubes, rice and 8 cups of water. Allow to boil on high heat for around 40 min.
- Strain and reserve the cooking water.
- Put the lentil, rice and potato mixture in a food processor and blend while gradually adding some of the reserved water until you get a smooth, soup-like consistency.
- In a skillet, fry the onion with the vegetable oil until golden and soft.
- Pour the soup in a cooking pot on medium heat and add the fried onions, cumin, and salt. Stir for 5 min until soup thickens.
- Finally, pour the soup in a deep bowl and garnish with fresh parsley.
- A tasty addition to this delicious soup would be a squeeze of lemon and some roasted pita bread pieces that you sprinkle on top of the soup once it’s served.
This is the BEST lentil soup recipe!! It's full of amazing lemony flavor, it's naturally healthy and vegan and gluten-free, it's quick and easy to make, and SO delicious. My favourite Middle Eastern restaurant serves a brightly coloured and flavoured yellow lentil soup with lots of lemon. I have tried to recreate it and this recipe comes pretty close! I love lentils and split peas (no need to soak) so here is my recipe for a hearty comfort food soup.
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