Delicious and Easy Red Lentil Soup (Vegan)
Ingredients
- One 2 quart container Mirepoix or use one onion, 2 large carrots, 5 ribs celery, chopped up. I got my Mirepoix from Trader Joe's
- Olive Oil to coat bottom pan
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt I like kosher or sea salt
- 2 cup red lentils I rinse them in a mesh colander
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- 8-10 cups water
- 1/2 lb of kale or substitute fresh baby spinach or frozen chopped spinach, escarole or swiss chard (cut into bite size pieces). One bag of Trader Joe's Kale (fresh or frozen) will work well.
Instructions
- Saute' the onion, carrots <g class="gr_ gr_157 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="157" data-gr-id="157">and</g> celery in olive oil.
- Add spices, salt, red lentils and 6 cups of the water.
- Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Watch to make sure all the water doesn't burn out and the soup doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot.
- Add 2 to 4 cups of water with the salt and cook for 15 minutes.
- Then add greens and cook a few minutes more.
- Serve with whole grain bread or crackers.
- This soup freezes well.