Red Lentil Thermos Soup

Submitted by Ficbot

"So easy, very adaptable, easily doubled, and allergy-safe! Enjoy..."

 

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

ingredients

• 0.5 (8 ounce) can condensed tomato soup
• 1 carrot
• 1 parsnip
• 1⁄4 cup red lentil
• onion powder, to taste
• garlic powder, to taste

directions

1. If you are packing this in a thermos, pre-heat the thermos by filling it with boiling water and letting it sit while you do the following:

2. First, re-constitute the soup with an equal amount of water. Stir well.
3. Grate the vegetables into the pot. Add the lentils. Season to taste.
4. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Pack into a thermos and go! Or, simmer 2-3 more minutes and eat right away.
5. Tip: You can grate the vegetables into the pot the night before and leave them there, covered, until ready to go.
6. Variations: Grate zucchini instead of parsnip. Add minute rice, couscous or cooked pasta. Replace the lentils with canned red beans, pinto beans or black beans.
7. NOTE: You must use RED lentils in this recipe! Green lentils take much longer to cook. Red lentils cook very quickly.

Reviews

[alazzia]

Nice recipe and so easy to make. Thermos cooking rocks.

 

[Xiney]

Very tasty soup, just what the doctor ordered! I used whole tomatoes and tomato puree with some salt instead of condensed soup, and I threw half a turnip I had in the fridge. Very easy, used what I had on hand. I ignored the other review, they obviously did it wrong!!

 

[peachy_pie]

Sorry! This might just have been me, but I didn't think lentils took that short a time to cook... aren't they normally 30 minutes? Anyway, mine were still hard. A good idea though, so I might try it with cooked beans next time. OH WAIT... were they meant to be COOKED lentils?