Red Lentil cream soup

Light, rich, delicate, with a velvety taste! Red lentil cream soup turns out to be nutritious and thick. This dish belongs to Turkish cuisine. This soup will not leave anyone indifferent. Children will especially like its bright color!

Julia M.

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

For soup::

Red lentils

250

Water (or broth)

Potatoes

250

Onion

Carrots

Tomato paste

Garlic

Lemons

0.5

Salt

to taste

Spices dry

to taste

Vegetable oil

For sauce::

Butter

Paprika

Ground red pepper

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 22 % 4 g

Fats 17 % 3 g

Carbohydrates 61 % 11 g

82 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
How to make cream soup from red lentils? Prepare the necessary ingredients for this.
Step 2:
Vegetables: onions, carrots, potatoes and garlic, peel and rinse in running water. Rinse the lentils several times in cold water. Then drain all the water.
Step 3:
Pour a little vegetable oil into a hot frying pan. Chop the onion and carrot and fry them for a couple of minutes.
Step 4:
Then add the sliced potatoes and tomato paste to the pan. Stir and fry everything together for another 2-4 minutes. You can cut vegetables of any size, since then we will chop everything.
Step 5:
Separately, bring the water to a boil in a saucepan and add the fried vegetables to it. Then add the washed lentils. Cook the soup over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Focus on the softness of potatoes and the cooking time of lentils (look at the packaging). At the end of cooking, add salt and spices to the soup. As a spice, I use ground black pepper, coriander and some dried herbs such as mint and basil.
Step 6:
Pour the soup into a stationary blender, add garlic and grind everything to a puree. Leave a little broth separately. this is necessary in order to be able to adjust the density of the soup.
Step 7:
Return the cream soup to the pan and warm it up for a couple more minutes. Red Lentil cream soup is ready!
Step 8:
Prepare a hot sauce for it. Melt the butter and mix it with paprika and ground red pepper.
Step 9:
Pour the soup into plates, pour a little lemon juice and add a little hot sauce! Bon appetit!

Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".

Butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a special container. To prevent the oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest power or in defrosting mode. At first, five seconds will be enough. Next, if the butter has not melted yet, set it again for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process several times until the desired result.
How to melt butter in a water bath? You will need two containers of different diameters. Pour water into a large one and put it on the stove. Place the smaller container on top so that it is submerged in water by about half. Put the sliced butter into it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil slightly to speed up the process. As soon as the pieces of butter are completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.