Lentil Soup

 

 

Lentil Soup

Pre-cooked and canned soups do fill the supermarket shelves, however, for a really good tasting and a meal all by itself, Lentil Soup fits the description.

Lentils are grown extensively around the Mediterranean regions, and Lentil Soup is prepared in a variety of ways, that I will not tempt to enumerate. However, and through the years of cooking, I found one of the simple and easy ways to make this soup, is to cook the Lentils long enough to get them well done. Along the Lentils, one can add an inexpensive cut of meat (Beef or Lamb) and cook together for an extended period of time, then add onion, Swiss Chards and Spinach, 10-15 minutes before end of cooking. So, one option is to use a Crock-Pot and cook these ingredients for 8-10 hours or try a faster version as shown below.

Ingredients  Lentils, , Onions, Salt, Pepper, Cumin, Curry