Steps to Prepare Homemade Red Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red lentil soup using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil Soup:

1. Prepare 1/2 cup red lentils
2. Get 2 tbsp oil (I use olive oil)
3. Take 1 dash hot red pepper flakes
4. Make ready 2 medium carrots, chopped
5. Get 1 large onion, chopped
6. Get 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
7. Prepare 2 tsp paprika
8. Take 1/4 cup tomato pure (or 1 tbsp tomato paste)
9. Get 4 cup stock (or water)
10. Prepare salt and pepper

Steps to make Red Lentil Soup:

1. Using a strainer place the lentils through running water until it runs clear.
2. In a medium cooking pan, heat the oil with the red pepper flakes. Add the onions and let them sweat for 5 minutes.
3. Next add the chopped carrots. Let them cook for another 5 mins. Next add the paprika and freshly cracked pepper. Stir a few times, then add the lemon juice.
4. Once the lemon juice has been absorbed (It'll take just a few seconds.), add the tomate pure or paste. Add salt. Next, throw in the lentils and the stock or water.
5. Let it cook in medium heat till the lentils have cooked through and start to barely show. It may take 15-20 minutes.
6. Turn the heat off. Let it cool for 5 minutes. Use a blender to have a smooth soup.
7. Place desired amount in a serving bowl, drizzle some olive oil and enjoy!

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