Here’s an excellent use for red lentils. We love hot curry,
but you could easily replace it with regular curry. The lime sour cream is an
essential condiment for this spicy and delicious soup.The photo above shows the soup a little thinner (and better in my opinion) and the photo below shows the soup a little thicker. Simply add more water if you want a thinner soup.
Here’s what
you need:
2 medium
onions, peeled and diced
3 stalks of
celery, diced
1 large
sweet potato, peeled and diced
4-5 cloves
garlic, minced
2-3 t hot
curry powder
2 C dried
red lentils
28 ounces
canned tomatoes
8 C water
2 Fresh limes
Sour cream
(dairy or vegan)
Cilantro
Here’s what
you do:
Sautee the
onions in a bit of olive oil for a few minutes. Add the celery, garlic, sweet
potato and curry. Cook for a few minutes. Add the lentils, tomatoes and water.
Bring to a boil, lower heat to a simmer, cover and cook over low heat until the
veg is all soft. I always like to let my soup sit, covered, off the heat to ‘soak’
for a while before serving. I think the flavors are better if you don’t rush
it.
Use an immersion
blender – or a high speed blender – to make a creamy consistency. Add the juice
of a lime (or to taste) and garnish each serving with a ‘lime sour cream.’ (Create
this by mixing more lime juice in sour cream to taste) Also garnish with
cilantro.
That looks delicious! It was so nice meeting you today!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour soup looks yummy! I like a nice healthy soup.
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