Cream of red lentil soup

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make creamy red lentil soup? Prepare the necessary ingredients for this.

2. STEP 2

   

   Vegetables: peel onions, carrots, potatoes and garlic and rinse in running water. Rinse the lentils several times in cold water. Then drain all the water.

3. STEP 3

   

   Pour some vegetable oil into a hot frying pan. Chop the onion and carrots and fry them for a couple of minutes.

4. STEP 4

   

   Then add the chopped potatoes and tomato paste to the pan. Stir and fry everything together for another 2-4 minutes. You can cut the vegetables into any size, as we will chop everything later.

5. STEP 5

   

   In a separate saucepan, bring water to a boil and add the fried vegetables. Next add the washed lentils. Cook the soup over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Focus on the softness of the potatoes and the cooking time of the lentils (look on the package). At the end of cooking, add salt and spices to the soup. For spice I use ground black pepper, coriander and some dried herbs like mint and basil.

6. STEP 6

   

   Pour the soup into a stand blender, add the garlic and puree everything. Leave a little broth separately. this is necessary in order to be able to regulate the thickness of the soup.

7. STEP 7

   

   Return the cream of soup to the pan and heat for a couple more minutes. Cream of red lentil soup is ready!

8. STEP 8

   

   Prepare hot sauce for it. Melt the butter and mix it with paprika and ground red pepper.

9. STEP 9

   

   Pour the soup into bowls, add a little lemon juice and add a little hot sauce! Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Olga

14.09.2023

4.9

Lentil soup is often on my table, but I cook only from lentils (fry in oil until the color changes) without vegetables. I don’t have a blender, so I do this: I pour the finished soup into another pan through a sieve, then I grind what doesn’t go through and the chorba (as they call it in Turkey) cannot be distinguished from the one chopped with a blender. This creamy red lentil soup just melts in your mouth! Light, but at the same time satisfying, with an ideal structure, pleasant taste and a delicate aroma of mint and lemon. I think that thanks to this detailed recipe with a photo report, many housewives will replenish their recipe storage! Thanks to the author!

Moderator Ksenia

14.09.2023

4.6

I had some green lentils left. I decided to make the first one from it, based on the recipe for creamy red lentil soup. I prepared the soup with pork broth (1.5 l). Replaced tomato paste with ketchup. From the spices I added curry (about 0.5 teaspoon) and a little ground coriander. I cooked the soup with lentils for about 20 minutes. Grind it with an immersion blender directly in the pan. The soup turned out to be of medium thickness (from the vegetables I took one large carrot, one large onion and two large potatoes). The soup has a very pleasant, spicy taste. The aroma is wonderful too. An excellent warming soup for the cold season. Thank you very much for the recipe!

Kirya

14.09.2023

4.7

Tasty and satisfying. I added more pieces of boiled chicken and croutons to the finished puree soup. It turned out absolutely perfect