Red lentil soup
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 250 g red lentils with seed coat on (or buy them without it if you want them to cook quickly. Without seed coat they're a bright orange color)
- 7 onions
- 7 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 4 tsp cumin ground
- black pepper ground
- 1 ½ litre vegetable broth
- olive oil
- salt
Instructions
- Rinse the lentils
- Put the lentils in a saucepan with just enough water to cover them. From boiling point cook for about 10 minutes
- Keep them aside with the lid on the pot.
- Make the veggie broth
- Slice 6 onions and the garlic
- In the pot where you'll cook the soup putsome olive oil and when warm add the onions and the garlic. Let them fry till they get golden
- Add the spices and stir
- Add the lentils and stir
- Add the broth and let cook the soup for about 1 hour, or until the lentils are soft
- Slice the remaining onion and fry it in a saucepan with some olive oil until they're golden and crunchy
- Sprinkle them on the bowls of soup when it's time to serve