Lentil soup with meat and potatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Beef pulp was used in the recipe, but the soup can be prepared with absolutely any meat.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the beef under running water, put it in a saucepan, pour cold water. Cover with a lid, put on high heat.

3. Step 3:

   

   When the water starts to boil, open the lid and remove the foam with a spoon. Add salt. Then reduce the heat to medium, cook the meat for an hour or an hour and a half (depends on which part of the beef you use for soup).

4. Step 4:

   

   While the meat is cooking, cook the remaining ingredients. Peel the onion, cut in half and chop each half finely.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the carrot, grate it on a coarse grater.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel potatoes, wash and cut into small cubes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wash the pepper, cut in half and remove the seeds from the peduncle. Cut into small cubes. Chop the peeled garlic finely or pass it through a garlic press.

8. Step 8:

   

   Cut the tomato arbitrarily into not very large pieces. If desired, you can remove the skin from the tomato in advance. To do this, pour boiling water over the tomato and leave for a minute, then gently drain the water and peel the tomato.

9. Step 9:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it. Put the onion, pepper, carrot and garlic in a frying pan and, stirring, fry for a while.

11. Step 10:

    

    Rinse the red lentils in cold water several times until the water becomes clear.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add potatoes to the pan with the finished meat. Make the fire to the maximum.

13. Step 12:

    

    Then send the lentils, mix everything. After boiling, reduce the stove to medium, cover the pan with a lid and cook until the potatoes and lentils are ready. It will take about 15-20 minutes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Remove the meat from the pan with a fork. Fire again to make the maximum. Send the roast to the pan.

15. Step 14:

    

    After boiling, add tomatoes to the soup. Try for salt, if you need to add salt.

16. Step 15:

    

    Cut the meat into pieces.

17. Step 16:

    

    Wash and chop the greens finely. The recipe used parsley. Dill and green onions are also well suited. Send the meat to the soup, and then the greens. Remove from the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let it brew for a while.

18. Step 17:

    

    When serving, the soup can be sprinkled with allspice. It will also be delicious with sour cream.