Lentil Soup

[Riklet]

Here you go. Spanish lentil soup. A more soupy version of the classic lentejas which is a stew really.

 

[RubyToogood]

Here you go. Spanish lentil soup. A more soupy version of the classic lentejas which is a stew really.

That looks really, really good.

I love green and brown lentils.

 

[Riklet]

That looks really, really good.

I love green and brown lentils.

Fresh thyme and parsley, lots of garlic and proper smoky paprika at the end if possible.

You can add roasted pumpkin or butternut squash too for a heartier soup.

Obviously for the stew it should have sliced up panceta/tocino, chorizo and black pudding but its fine without too. Diced chorizo would give the soup a richer flavour though.

 

[RubyToogood]

Fresh thyme and parsley, lots of garlic and proper smoky paprika at the end if possible.

You can add roasted pumpkin or butternut squash too for a heartier soup.

Obviously for the stew it should have sliced up panceta/tocino, chorizo and black pudding but its fine without too. Diced chorizo would give the soup a richer flavour though.

I have in the past done similar in vegetarian mode with veggie frankfurters.

 

[Orang Utan]

Look at this one - just happened to have borrowed the book it’s from:

 

[Orang Utan]

Just about to make this:

Nigel Slater’s recipes for lentil, tomato and coconut soup, and for clementine and lemon tarts

Greet the new year with a splendid warming lentil broth followed by zingy citrus tarts. By Nigel Slater

www.theguardian.com

Will probably fuck around with the recipe a bit though

 

[Callie]

Look at this one - just happened to have borrowed the book it’s from:
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Can you do screenshots of pg.270 and 263 too?

 

[Callie]

Can you do screenshots of pg.270 and 263 too?

Screenshots or yunno pictures

 

[Orang Utan]

Can you do screenshots of pg.270 and 263 too?

Do you mean 270 and 264?

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[danny la rouge]

Screenshots or yunno pictures

Listen, I once tried to get a closer look at a bird in the sky by swiping my fingers at the air in front of my face trying to zoom in. At the fucking real sky.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[cesare]

Listen, I once tried to get a closer look at a bird in the sky by swiping my fingers at the air in front of my face trying to zoom in. At the fucking real sky.

Are you saying that doesn't work?

 

[8ball]

Lunch.

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That looks proper lush.

Is that some fancy kind of bread?

 

[8ball]

I make this recipe which I got from Urban years ago courtesy of a poster called selalmlar who is no longer here and is untaggable (but if selamlar should ever read this - thanks!):

Mercimek corba!

1 cup red lentils
1 medium size onion
1 carrot
1 tbsp tomato (or, preferably, pepper) paste
1 tsp salt
1 tsp crushed pepper
6 cups of water
3 tbsp olive oil or butter
1 tbsp paprika

Cut up onion into little bits and cook in 1 tbsp oil for 3-4 minutes. Add the paste and cook for a couple of minutes, and add the lentils, chopped carrot, salt pepper and water. Cook for 25-30 mins. Either blend with hand blender or pass though a sieve. Heat remaining oil/butter with paprika for about half a minute. Add to top. Add lemon juice to taste. Eat.

So cheap it is almost free, and a part of damn near every Turkish meal. Good job its nice!

It's quick, cheap and good. I always puree it with a stick blender and serve it with 'homemade bread' AKA one of those packet mixes.

Rookie question - how much is “a cup” in this recipe?

 

[oryx]

Rookie question - how much is “a cup” in this recipe?

Fuck knows. It's the only recipe I routinely use that has American cups.

Usually about 75 - 100 grammes for two to four people IIRC.

 

[Pickman's model]

I see the guardian has pronounced on this matter How to make the perfect lentil soup – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I see the guardian has pronounced on this matter How to make the perfect lentil soup – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

Looks fine to me, only I'd be unlikely to ham stock these days (as perfect as it is for lentil soup) - would rather keep it veggie.

 

[RubyToogood]

I see the guardian has pronounced on this matter How to make the perfect lentil soup – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

I am deeply, deeply shocked by this article. "Just use whatever lentils you have to hand, it doesn't really matter." Red, brown and green lentils are all TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

The Guardian has fallen to a new low

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I am deeply, deeply shocked by this article. "Just use whatever lentils you have to hand, it doesn't really matter."

TBF, that's what I'd do. If I have an open bag of red lentils, not going to open another bag of green just to make soup.

 

[Sue]

Looks fine to me, only I'd be unlikely to ham stock these days (as perfect as it is for lentil soup) - would rather keep it veggie.

No tatties. Or leeks/cabbage. And blending some of it is just wrong IMO. And dripping...

 

[RubyToogood]

I made the Felicity Cloake version yesterday, or at least threw the general gist of it together from memory using a veg stock cube and a bit of smoked salt and tbf it was fucking delicious.

I usually feel compelled to make lentil soup curried in some way but I'll have to do this again.