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Warm and Comforting Vegetarian Lentil Soup

Warm and Comforting Vegetarian Lentil Soup
  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe for Beans
    This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Lentils
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    drbabs's Notes: When you're snowed in, what's better than a steamy hot bowl of lentil soup? I love Ina Garten's salmon with lentils from her Barefoot in Paris cookbook. I used that recipe as the basis for...

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Serves a large pot of soup

  1. Heat oil in Dutch oven.

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  2. Add onions, leeks, celery, carrots, and kosher salt, and saute till onions are translucent.

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  3. Add garlic and cook for another minute or so.

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  4. Stir in tomatoes and cook for another minute.

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  5. Add lentils, potatoes, wine, vegetable stock and water, bay leaves, cayenne and thyme. Bring to boil, then reduce to simmer.

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  6. Cook, covered, till lentils are soft and potatoes are cooked through. (You may need to add more water, wine or stock.) Stir in spinach and let it simmer till wilted. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Remove the bay leaves.

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  7. If you like, puree some of the soup (about 2 cups) in a blender or with an immersion blender to get a thick creamy consistency. Taste and adjust seasonings.

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  8. Before serving, stir about a teaspoon of sherry vinegar into each bowl.

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4 Comments on Warm and Comforting Vegetarian Lentil Soup

Wedding_pictures_162 Reply

Oh--I forgot to add--remove the bay leaves before serving! (But you knew that, right?)

Wedding_pictures_162 Reply

(Oops--I didn't realize I could still edit the recipe--it's in there now.)

Bmp_9375 Reply

This looks so yummy! :)

Wedding_pictures_162 Reply

Thanks! I see you've resurfaced! I hope your new year is a good one!

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