Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Green Lentil Soup

Green Lentil Soup.

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. {Take 1 of Red bell pepper.
2. {Take 1 of White or yellow onion.
3. {Get 3-4 of Whole chives.
4. {Make ready 1 teaspoon of cumin.
5. {Make ready 2.5 pounds of or 3g of Green lentils.
6. {Get to taste of Salt.
7. {Make ready 5 cloves of garlic (optional).
8. {Get 1 of tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel).
9. {Make ready of Water to cover ingredients.
10. {Take 1 tbsp of Chicken bouillon (optional).
11. {Take 2 tbsp of Sofrito cooking base.
12. {Prepare 1/4 cup of Green peas.
13. {Make ready 1/4 cup of diced peeled carrots.
14. {Prepare 1/2 cup of green beans.
15. {Get 1/2-1 cup of yellow squash (calabaza).
16. {Get 1/4 cup of sweet corn.

Steps to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely..
2. Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt.
3. Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes..
4. After 20 minutes, lower flame to Med low and remove onion, whole tomato, chives, and red pepper from pot and set aside to mix in blender..
5. Stir lentils and taste water to check if desired salt level has been achieved. If not, we can add more salt after blending remaining ingredients..
6. Take ingredients we set aside (red pepper, tomato, chives, onion) and add to blender (or food processor) and make a purée with these ingredients. Add salt if desired then add purée back to lentils stirring to combine and simmer on medium for another 20 minutes or until lentils are at desired tenderness..
7. Serve with rice or bread!.

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