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Prep 15 minCook 30 minServes 4
Ingredients
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260 g red lentils (dry), rinsed
1 onion, chopped (150 g)
300 g carrot, diced
2 celery sticks, diced (100 g)
3 garlic cloves, chopped (15 g)
1.2 litres reduced-salt vegetable stock (1200 g)
25 ml extra-virgin olive oil (23 g)
3 g ground cumin
12 g flat-leaf parsley, chopped
4 slices wholegrain bread (160 g), to serve
0.5 g iodised table salt, plus more at the table
Ground black pepper, to taste
Method
Warm the oil in a large pan over medium-low heat and cook the onion, carrot and celery with the salt for 12 minutes, until softened and sweet.
Stir in the garlic and cumin for a minute, until they smell toasted rather than dusty.
Add the lentils and stock, bring to a simmer and cook 25-30 minutes, stirring now and then and scraping the base. Red lentils sink and catch, and a burnt bottom flavours the whole pot.
It is ready when the lentils have lost their shape and the soup coats the back of a spoon.
Stir the parsley through, grind pepper over, grind pepper over, toast the bread, and serve it alongside.
Serve
Onion and garlic are both commonly reported triggers and both are in here, because they are what a lentil soup is built on. If either is one of yours, leave it out and lean harder on the cumin and a squeeze of lemon at the end.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C
Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.
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Lentil and Carrot Soup with Toast
Serves 4 · Prep 15 min · Cook 30 min
Red lentils cooked until they collapse into a thick soup, with carrot and celery. Nothing sharp in it.
Ingredients
260 g red lentils (dry), rinsed
1 onion, chopped (150 g)
300 g carrot, diced
2 celery sticks, diced (100 g)
3 garlic cloves, chopped (15 g)
1.2 litres reduced-salt vegetable stock (1200 g)
25 ml extra-virgin olive oil (23 g)
3 g ground cumin
12 g flat-leaf parsley, chopped
4 slices wholegrain bread (160 g), to serve
0.5 g iodised table salt, plus more at the table
Ground black pepper, to taste
Approximate per serving
1766 kJ / 422.1 kcal · protein 21.3 g · carbohydrate 54.8 g · fibre 16.2 g · fat 8.9 g · sodium 1009 mg
Method
Warm the oil in a large pan over medium-low heat and cook the onion, carrot and celery with the salt for 12 minutes, until softened and sweet.
Stir in the garlic and cumin for a minute, until they smell toasted rather than dusty.
Add the lentils and stock, bring to a simmer and cook 25-30 minutes, stirring now and then and scraping the base. Red lentils sink and catch, and a burnt bottom flavours the whole pot.
It is ready when the lentils have lost their shape and the soup coats the back of a spoon.
Stir the parsley through, grind pepper over, grind pepper over, toast the bread, and serve it alongside.
Serve
Onion and garlic are both commonly reported triggers and both are in here, because they are what a lentil soup is built on. If either is one of yours, leave it out and lean harder on the cumin and a squeeze of lemon at the end.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C
Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.
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