Lentil and vegetable soup

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Serves
8
Author Notes
I take care of soups. They are healthy (in overall), hearty and pleasant. Especially in cooler weather. I moreover fancy them as lunches to perceive to work as a healthy different to cafe meals or takeaways. Lentils are a pulse that scheme from the seed of the annual plant lens culinaris. They’ve been feeble in the human diet for the explanation that stone age and low in fats, excessive in protein and excessive in fiber. Health shiny lentils dangle a provide of cholesterol reducing fiber, back protect watch over blood sugar and are judicious one of many absolute top vegetable sources of iron. Their iron content is in particular main for vegetarians or anyone plagued by iron deficiency, much like myself. —Jennifer (Delicieux)
Substances
1
onion, diced
1
leek, sliced
4
cloves of garlic, peeled and chopped
2 teaspoons
dried thyme
2
carrots, peeled and diced
6
mushrooms, diced or sliced
2
stalks of celery, diced
1
400g tin of chopped Italian tomatoes
1 cup
French green lentils
60g
rocket leaves
1/4 cup
dill, chopped
1.5
litres of vegetable or meat inventory
1 tablespoon
olive oil
Instructions
- Warm a salubrious pot and add the olive oil, garlic, onion and leek and cook dinner except the onion begins to turn translucent.
- Add the celery, carrot, thyme and mushrooms and cook dinner for a short time except the carrot begins to soften.
- Then add the tinned tomatoes, lentils and inventory and scurry effectively. Masks and cook dinner for 25 to 30 minutes. Season to taste.
- Before serving add the rocket and dill. Wait on with warm crusty bread.