Kurdish Spicy Lentil Soup
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 cup red lentil
- 1⁄3 cup skinned wheat berries or 1/3 cup white rice
- 1⁄4 cup chickpeas, soaked overnight and drained
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped carrot
- 2 italian frying green bell peppers, cored, seeded, and cut into small pieces
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 -2 whole dried hot red chili pepper
- salt, to taste
directions
- Combine the lentils, wheat berries, chickpeas, and 2 quarts of water in a large pot.
- Cover, bring to a boil, and skim carefully.
- Add the vegetables, tomato paste, and hot peppers.
- Cook, covered, for 1 hour.
- Add the salt and cook 30 minutes longer, or until the chickpeas are fully cooked. Serves 6.
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Reviews
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A tasty and simple to prepare soup. I cheated and added canned chickpeas , which I added towards the end (reducing the overall cooking time by about half). I also doubled the tomato paste and added a heaped tablespoon of good veg stock powder. The dried whole chillies added a nice amount of heat. Reviwed for Fall PAC 2008