Spiced red lentil soup
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Pip
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A filling and tasty soup perfect for lunch
10 mins
35 mins
213 kcals
serves 4
SPICED LENTIL SOUP
One of the things that I love about lentil soup is that it’s filling and dense enough that you don’t feel the need to eat bread with it! I tend to use my healthy extra b option for breakfast and therefore can’t use it again at lunchtime. This is a really lovely stand-alone soup, full of speedy vegetables and very filling.
Ingredients
- 1 onion chopped
- 3 celery sticks roughly chopped
- 3 carrots washed and topped and tailed and roughly chopped (I don’t bother peeling them!)
- 1 leek trimmed and roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and chopped
- 1 red chilli deseeded and chopped
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 litre vegetable stock
- 150 g red lentils rinsed
- 1/2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- salt and pepper
- Low calorie cooking spray
Instructions
- spray a large pan with low calorie cooking spray and gently fry the onions, garlic and chilli for a couple of minutes.
- Add in the celery and leek and fry for 2 more minutes.
- Stir in the paprika, and then add the vegetable stock, carrots and tomato puree. Stir well and bring to a simmer
- Add the lentils, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Whizz up with a hand blender, season to taste, add the lemon juice and serve.
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