Spicy Red Lentil Soup

Summary

Yield
Servings
Sourcethomsonj
Prep time
30 minutes
Cooking time
2 hours
Total time
2 1/2 hours

Ingredients

2 tablespoon
olive oil
2  
purple onions minced
8 clove
garlic peeled by flattening
1 teaspoon
fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1⁄2 teaspoon
Chili powder
1⁄2 teaspoon
cumin
1⁄2 teaspoon
coriander
1 1⁄2 teaspoon
curry powder
1⁄2 teaspoon
tumeric
3 quart
broth (chicken or vegetable) (qt! )
3  
carrots, peeled, sliced thinly on the diagonal
1 1⁄2 cup
red lentils
1 cup
brown rice
1 can
stewed tomatoes
1  
bell pepper (red or yellow) sliced
3 tablespoon
chipotle hot sauce
1 dash
cracked black pepper to taste
1 cup
leftover chicken from a roast(optional)
1  
bell pepper

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a stock pot, add onions, ginger, garlic. Caramelize slightly
2. add all the dry spices, except pepper, mixing well with the onion oil mix to release all the aromas
3. add broth, carrots, lentils, rice, tomatoes, chipotle hot sauce, and grind pepper in to taste. Add chicken at this point if you are using it.
4. Simmer for approximately 30 minutes until rice and lentils are tender
5. remove the garlic cloves, puree them, then throw them back into pot
6. add bell peppers

Notes

Made this tonight, and it has an almost BBQ flavour to it, nice bit of heat to it. The garlic is actually subtle, despite having 8 cloves within the soup. We ended up with 4 bottles of soup (pasta sauce sized) as leftovers. Surprising how well the curry and chipotle go together.

* you can make this more watery by adding extra broth;
* sorry for the lack of precise volume on the broth; it's the amount I get from boiling up the bones from roast chicken in the slow cooker over a 24 hour (minimum) period

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