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Winter vegetable & lentil soup

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Winter vegetable & lentil soup

Name: Winter vegetable & lentil soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 85g dried red lentils; 2 carrots quartered lengthways then diced; 3 sticks celery sliced; 2 small leeks sliced; 2 tbsp tomato purée; 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves; 3 large garlic cloves chopped; 1 tbsp vegetable bouillon powder; 1 heaped tsp ground coriander

Sara Buenfeld

A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.103 ratingsRate

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Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:10 mins
- Cook:30 mins
Easy
Serves 2

When it's cold outside, treat yourself to a healthy homemade vegetable soup, packed with immunity-supporting vitamin C and four of your 5-a-day

Easily doubled
Freezable
Egg-free
Healthy
Nut-free
Vegetarian

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85g dried red lentils
2 carrots
quartered lengthways then diced
3 sticks celery
sliced
2 small leeks
sliced
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 tbsp fresh thyme
leaves
3 large garlic cloves
chopped
1 tbsp vegetable bouillon powder
1 heaped tsp ground coriander

Nutrition: per serving

kcal264
low
fat3g
low
saturates1g
carbs37g
sugars11g
low
fibre13g
high
protein16g
high
salt0.4g
low

Method

step 1
Tip all the ingredients into a large pan. Pour over 1½ litres boiling water, then stir well.
step 2
Cover and leave to simmer for 30 mins until the vegetables and lentils are tender.
step 3
Ladle into bowls and eat straightaway, or if you like a really thick texture, blitz a third of the soup with a hand blender or in a food processor.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2017

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A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.103 ratings

Chri55mu5

5 months ago

We quire enjoyed this. I wonder if it would have been more tasty if some of the ingredients were lightly cooked in oil prior to putting in with everything else?

ali'skitchen

1 year ago

Planning on making this tomorrow, do the lentils need soaking overnight? Tia

SteveM842

4 months ago

I would say no they dont as red lentils cook easily.

Frantic Flapjack

1 year ago

This was a great soup and I loved that you just put all the ingredients in the pan and leave it to simmer. It turned out very well. I didn't blitz it. I was a bit hesitant with the amount of water due to the comments about it being too watery so I started off with 1L of water and then topped it…

mullin.katherine28053

1 year ago

Lovely soup.

Advice- double the ingredients for a small batch cook. I didn’t double the water; rather than 3litres I did around 2 1/2litres (my pan was too small but it turned out much better!). I didn’t blend at all and added a few potatoes in to keep it thick with some nice chunky vegetables.…