tomato lentil soup

[Pixie]

this is the soup that i have made a few times, and my family LOVES it. i actually successfully made this soup with DRIED lentils! (some of you may remember my black bean fiasco, what a mess!)

 

here is the original recipe.

4tbs unsalted butter

2 cups chopped onions

2 cups chopped celery

2 cans of italian plumb tomatos(with thier juice)

6 cups chicken stock

1/2 cup dried lentils

1 cup chopped italian fresh parsly

1/2 cup dry red wine

4 cloves garlic, finely minced

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground cloves

 

melt butter in large soup pot

add onions and celery, stiring until veggies are wilted.

 

puree tomatos with thier juice in blender, add to wilted veggies.

 

add chicken stock and lentils, bring to a boil. reduce heat and simmer , un covered stirring occationally for 20 minutes

 

add half the parsly wine and spicess stir well, and simmer another 25 minutes

 

add remaining parsly and simmer for another 5 minutes, serve immediately.

 

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the way I make it:

 

olive oil

2 good sized carrots, peeled and grated

3 celery stickes, sliced

1 onion, chopped

one can of diced tomatos, one can of crushed tomatos

6 cups water

1 cup dried lentils

6 teaspoons of chicken broth powder

4 cloves garlic,

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground cloves

tbs of sugar

1/4 cup of white wine vinegar

 

*the day befofe you make this, soak the driedlentils in water

put water in a large soup pot with lentils, bring to a boil for 5 minutes, turn down to a simmer, stir occationally untill ready to add the rest of the ingrediants.

 

heat olive oil in frying pan, and cook onions, celery and carrots untill almost tender.

 

add both cans of tomatos, juice and all, also add the vinegar and sugar.

 

add sugar and simmer

 

i put all my spiced into my mortor and crush them all together. i add the chicken broth powder to the mix as well. i add half this mix to the tomato portion in the pan, and the other half tothe lentils. let each simmer seprately for about 8 or 10 minutes. put everything into the pot, and bring to a boil. simmer untill ready to serve...

 

the great thing about this soup is that you can add leftovers and no one knows! lol the last batch i made had spanish rice (bacon tomatos rice and veggies and spices) and chicken pasta (twirly noodles, with a tomato sauce and chicken pieces)

 

i serve this with bisquits and jam on the side.

 

i hope i did not leave out any details. heh heh

[Pixie]

bump!

 

i wanna make this tmorrow, and I need to be able to find the recipe again so i can print it! basides, someone else may wanna try it too!

 

yumyum!

[Amishway Homesteaders]

Thanks-

I too made a copy seeing I must have missed it the first time around. LOL

 

 

I LOVE this time of year because around here it is SOUP TIME!

Yes I make homemade soup all year long but now that the weather is getting cooler there will be a pot os soup cooking at least one day a week with leftovers every few days.

 

Start the base of whatever soup I am making,

Go out into garden to see what is left over from Harvest.

Off to the Herb Patch Garden for this and that.

Add some noodles, lentils, barley , rice or whatever.

Cut up some leftover meat, or use a ham hock.

Little bit of this and a little bit of that.

and you got SOUP!

 

[Christy]

Yummie, it looks like the Indian Dahl soup. Will definitely give this a try.

[autumn7]

I have lentils.

 

Thanks so much.making a copy of this recipe.