Jan's Curried Lentil Soup

Submitted by rainbowbrush

"This hearty soup, very warming for winter days, is best made the day before to allow the flavour of the spices to infuse."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 48mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 30 ml oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 large carrots, chopped
• 2 stalk celery, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 7 ml curry powder
• 1 ml ground cumin
• 1 ml ground coriander
• 1000.0 ml chicken stock
• 30 ml tomato paste
• 100 g red lentils, washed
• 3 large potatoes, grated
• salt
• cracked pepper

directions

1. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onion, carrots and celery and fry for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
2. Add the garlic, curry powder to taste, cumin and coriander, and fry for an additional 2 minutes, then pour in the stock followed by the tomato paste lentils, grated potatoes.
3. Bring the soup to the boil and simmer for 30-40 minutes, until the lentils and vegetables are cooked. Season generously to taste before serving with hot chapatis for an authentic Asian dish.

Reviews

[Jewelies]

This is fabulous. I cooked in my crockpot overnight and took Stardustannies advice about the spices. (1 T curry powder, 1 t coriander and cumin powder). Also upped the amount of stock to 2 litres. Served with roti that I bought from my asian foodmarket.

 

[Stardustannie]

I found this recipe needed double the stock (2 Lt)I also upped the spices to 1 tsp of both cummin and corriander and 1 Tbs curry powder. A very flavoursome and easy to prepare soup, thanks for sharing!! Even though I made slight changes I'm still going to award it 5 stars because the whole family ate it...which makes it a winner in my book!