Simple Way to Prepare Quick Western Style Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, western style lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Western Style Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Make ready 2 Bay leaves
2. Get Lentils (orange and green)
3. Make ready Corn
4. Prepare Lemon (cut in half)
5. Take 1 Potato
6. Prepare 1 Carrot
7. Get 2 tomato
8. Get 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
9. Prepare 2 pieces Ginger
10. Take Olive oil
11. Take Chopped garlic
12. Make ready Brown sugar
13. Take basil herbs

Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Boil water for the soup base
2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
15. Add basil herbs
16. Let it boil
17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
19. Cook with lid slightly opened
20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
23. Add corn into the pot
24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

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