Tired of pea or bean soup? At the same time, do you like first courses with legumes? Then make a great lentil soup. This is a great alternative to the accustomed beans. This soup will perfectly diversify your everyday menu.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Lentils are not the most popular product for our housewives. However, the demand for it is starting to grow. This wonderful culture has shown itself to be positive in taste and health. Many dishes are made from it, incl. and make soups. Lentils are a family of legumes. However, unlike other legumes, it does not require pre-soaking. Therefore, dishes with her participation are prepared very quickly, which can make them an excellent lunch option.
Lentils are of several types. For example, the quickest way to cook soup is with red and brown lentils, while green lentils take a little longer to boil. It is worth noting that lentils, like other legumes, contain a lot of protein, which means they can be a great substitute for meat dishes. This will especially help people out during the fasting period. You can supplement this soup with any food and vegetables. Spices will help to reveal the taste, and you can adjust the density of the food yourself. By the way, I recommend trying the same soup, but with smoked meats.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 61, 5 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 45-50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pork - 300 g
- Lentils - 250 g
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Ground pepper - a pinch
- Allspice peas - 3 pcs.
Step-by-step recipe for making lentil soup with pork broth
1. Wash the pork and peel off the film with fat. Cut it into medium pieces and place in a cooking pot. Add the peeled onion, bay leaf and peppercorns. Fill the food with drinking water and place it on the stove.
2. Boil over high heat and remove the resulting foam. Reduce the temperature to minimum and cook the broth for about half an hour.
3. By this time, wash the lentils. Peel the carrots and cut into small cubes or grate on a coarse grater.
4. Place the lentils in the pot first.
5. Place the carrots next.
6. Season the soup with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Then continue to cook over low heat until lentils are soft. This process will take about 20-25 minutes. lentils are cooked very quickly. At the end of cooking, season the soup with the garlic passed through a press and boil it for another 1-2 minutes.
7. Pour the finished soup into bowls and serve. It is very tasty to use it with croutons or croutons. By the way, if you want, you can kill the vegetables with a blender, then you will have a puree soup.
See also the video recipe on how to make lentil soup. Ilya Lazerson's recipe.
