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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal258
    low
  • fat5g
    low
  • saturates1g
  • carbs37g
  • sugars12g
  • fibre8g
  • protein13g
    high
  • salt1.6g
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Method

  • step 1

    Put the kettle on to boil while you finely slice the onion. Heat the oil in a medium pan, add the onion and fry for 2 mins while you slice the garlic and dice the carrots. Add them to the pan, and cook briefly over the heat.

  • step 2

    Pour in 1 litre of the boiling water from the kettle, stir in the lentils and stock cube, then cover the pan and cook over a medium heat for 15 mins until the lentils are tender. Take off the heat and stir in the parsley. Ladle into bowls, and scatter with extra parsley leaves, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2015

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Overall rating

A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.118 ratings

Paul Hectic

I used two onions and two stock cubes instead of one and added extra garlic cloves and it turned out very tasty indeed.

tabbyiab5032754

It's a basic recipe, but that invites you to add to it and make it your own. I added a couple of small peeled and diced potatoes, dried celery leaf, dried fenugreek leaf, dried chipotle flakes, paprika and fresh thyme and parsley from the garden, plus a bit of fresh ground black pepper and a pinch…

bobmurraycygfGfA6AW9

I think this recipe should be revisited by your experts. The clue is in the ingredient "one litre of water, serves two". That's an awful lot of soup for two servings. The comments contain many observations regarding the thickness, and blandness of the soup. I changed the recipe to 500 millilitres…

diwhite6469473

Can you make this in a slow cooker?

artayles

Great recipe. I had to add a bit of cornflour at the end to thicken it up a bit but apart from that it was perfect.

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