Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: food, red lentil soup recipe

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

Easy and fast. Choose organic for best soup. 

Red Lentil Soup
(Egyptian Shurit Ads, Time Life mid east cookbook)
Makes an orange puree, similar to split pea. 

8 C red lentils (they look orange, have no hulls)
8 C broth (veg or chicken; I use water and veg powder)
4 medium onions, peeled and quartered
__tomato - 4 big fresh, or a fat can or two of canned, or a bottle of puree
__garlic, chopped coarsely  about 1/4 cup, more or less, to taste 

Cook all that together, to boil, then simmer till the lentils are mush. 
About an hour. 

Blend. If you have an immersible blender (looks like a fat wand with 
whirling blade on the end - Braun and Phillips make them) you just blend it 
right in the pot. If you don't have such a blender, it's a super useful tool 
to get. Saves sloshing hot stuff around and making lots of mess!
Or do batches in a regular blender, or stir it through a sieve, or cut it 
all smaller and don't blend it at all. 

Season. 2-3 T ground cumin, 3 t salt 

(If you have to heat it after it's blended, do so cautiously, to avoid 
scorching.) 

Garnish if desired. Offer sour cream, chopped parsley or green onion, lemon 
wedges, black pepper, to make it prettier, but it doesn't need anything 
really. 

Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA