Sausage and Lentil Soup

Submitted by Stardustannie

"A meal in it's self when served with some nice crusty bread."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 large yellow onions, Chopped
• 300 g brown lentils
• 3 carrots, Chopped Fine
• 3 celery ribs, Chopped Fine
• 2 large tomatoes, Chopped
• 7 cups chicken stock (Cubes Are Fine)
• 1 1⁄2 cups tomato puree
• 500 g thin beef sausages

directions

1. Rinse lentils and pick through.
2. Heat oil in large pan; cook onion, celery and garlic, stirring, until onion is soft. Stir in stock, tomato puree, lentils,tomato and carrot.
3. Simmer for about 3/4 hour or until lentils and carrots are tender.
4. Meanwhile cook sausages, until brown all over and cooked through.
5. Drain sausages on absorbent paper, slice then add to soup.
6. Cook uncovered till hot. Add pepper to taste.

Reviews

[LARavenscroft]

Made for Recipe Swap #21 Aus/NZ. This was a very tasty soup. I love lentils, but my family isn't crazy about them - at least that's what they tell me - they liked this soup - go figure. I'll definitely be making this again. Thanks for posting this Stardustannie!

 

[andypandy]

Made this yesterday it was a cold and snowy day here, the only changes I also used a large 28 oz can of diced tomatoes instead of the chopped fresh tomato and the puree, as that is what I had on hand. Also I put in a dash of lemon pepper and vinegar at the end of cooking time. Oh and I used Hot Italian Sausages too. Everything worked out great. Superb Lentil Soup !

 

[akgrown]

This was hearty and delicious! Mine turned out more like a stew, but we liked it that way. ;-) I used some spicy smoked sausage that I had sliced and browned for the beef sausages. This definetely a meal in itself that I served with some crusty bread. ;-) Thanks for posting!

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

Great soup! I used way more garlic than stated, and used homemade turkey broth that I keep handy in my freezer in place of chicken broth. My DH will enjoy this for lunch, he loves beans and lentils! thanks Star!...Kitten:)

 

[bluemoon downunder]

I made a double quantity of this hearty and flavoursome soup, for Pick a Chef 2006, so I have several lots in the freezer to enjoy in the future. As well as all the listed ingredients (I used baby carrots and homemade chicken stock), I added four chopped zucchini, simply because they were looking so good when I bought the other vegetables. I used some gourmet chicken and camembert sausages and I added a teaspoon of dried thyme and a teaspoon of dried oregano. A great winter soup, Stardustannie! Thanks for sharing it!