Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, my gran's lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Great recipe for My Gran's Lentil Soup. Nowadays, soup is usually blended so it looks nice as well as tastes nice. Go back a few decades and it was practically unheard of!
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook my gran's lentil soup using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make My Gran's Lentil Soup:
- Make ready 200 g red lentils
- Prepare 1 chopped onion
- Make ready 4 chopped carrots
- Take 2 veg stock cubes
- Prepare 2-3 bay leaves
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Get 4 potatoes and butter for mashing
- Make ready to taste Salt
My grandma soaks the lentils in water overnight, then drains them the next day before preparing the soup as the recipe directs. But as much I longed for the familiar comfort of my first soup, that warming embrace of her recipe, it was too hard. Many times I gazed longingly at the vegetables in the aisles at my supermarket or local grocers - on one occasion I even put them in my basket before my resolve fled and. Soup can be prepared ahead of time.
Instructions to make My Gran's Lentil Soup:
- Soak lentils according to instructions. Bring to the boil a big pot of water. When it reaches the boil add chopped onion, bay leaves, cloves and stock cubes. Leave to simmer for about 15 minutes while you prepare the carrots and potatoes
- Start to boil potatoes, add carrots and lentils to the stock. Simmer soup for about 30 mins while potatoes cook. Add salt to soup and check for taste
- Mash the potatoes once ready with a knob of butter. Put a ball of mash in the middle of a bowl. Remove the cloves and bay leaves. Pour soup around it. Serve with bread and butter if you fancy 😊
Cool, then pour into airtight container(s). When ready to serve, transfer frozen block of soup to large saucepan; cover. Cook on low heat until thawed. A perfect cold-weather lunch or dinner. It's been cloudy and rainy here - a.k.a typical Pacific Northwest weather in the Fall.
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