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Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, green lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Green Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Green Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green lentil soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. Get 1 Red bell pepper
2. Make ready 1 White or yellow onion
3. Prepare 3-4 Whole chives
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
5. Make ready 2.5 pounds or 3g of Green lentils
6. Take to taste Salt
7. Make ready 5 cloves garlic (optional)
8. Take 1 tomato or tomato paste (preferably without peel)
9. Get Water to cover ingredients
10. Take 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon (optional)
11. Get 2 tbsp Sofrito cooking base
12. Take ¹⁄₄ cup Green peas
13. Make ready ¹⁄₄ cup diced peeled carrots
14. Take ¹⁄₂ cup green beans
15. Prepare ¹⁄₂-1 cup yellow squash (calabaza)
16. Take ¹⁄₄ cup sweet corn

Pour in vegetable stock or water and bring the soup to boil. Add in lentils, stock, and tomatoes w/ juice; bring to a boil. Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon.

Instructions to make Green Lentil Soup:

1. Rinse lentils then add to pot with enough water to cover completely.
2. Add red pepper (roughly chopped in large pieces), onion (cut in half), garlic, chicken bouillon, whole chives, tomato (whole or paste), salt
3. Stir, combing ingredients then Bring to a simmer, cover, and let cook for 20 minutes.
4. After 20 minutes, lower flame to Med low and remove onion, whole tomato, chives, and red pepper from pot and set aside to mix in blender.
5. Stir lentils and taste water to check if desired salt level has been achieved. If not, we can add more salt after blending remaining ingredients.
6. Take ingredients we set aside (red pepper, tomato, chives, onion) and add to blender (or food processor) and make a purée with these ingredients. Add salt if desired then add purée back to lentils stirring to combine and simmer on medium for another 20 minutes or until lentils are at desired tenderness.
7. Serve with rice or bread!

Discard bay leaves; season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into heated bowls and garnish with reserved bacon. Use green lentils, red lentils, brown lentils or a lentil soup mix. All it takes is a hint of spice flavourings, bay leaves and finishing it off with a touch of lemon to elevate this soup. Both French green lentils (available in natural-foods stores and specialty markets) and more commonly available brown lentils are delicious in this soup.

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