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Lentil Soup
recipe image Description A deliciously thick and rustic soup which will warm you up.
Created by MysticMC, September 17, 2007

Ingredients

At a glance
Difficulty
Easy
Course
Starters
Main Courses
Serves
4
The soup:
  • 200g lentils
  • 1 large carrot
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 pinch of ground ginger
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 cup milk

The croutons:
  • Stale bread
  • 1 large knob of salted butter

Methods/steps

The soup:
Soak lentils overnight.
Chop onion and carrot. Put them in a pan with the lentils, the bay leaf, ginger, salt and pepper.
Add 1.5 litre of water and cook over a slow heat for around 90 minutes.
Remove the bay leaf. Puree the soup with a mixer. Bring to the boil and remove from heat.
Add the milk.

The croutons:
Remove crusts from bread. Butter it and cut it into cubes. Cook in a frying pan till it's nicely coloured.

Serve the soup with croutons.

Additional Tips

You can serve this soup with crispy bacon or fried onion slices... for an irresistible treat.