Dear Husband has been wanting lentil soup for the past 12 years, and I finally decided to make it tonight. The reason I postponed so much is that I do not like it, so I had a frozen while DH, mom and dad ate the soup. They swore it was awesome and totally delicious. We made our no-knead bread to go with it- I did have some of that and it was yummy as usual.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
- Some oil ( about 1 tablespoon)
- 1 carrot, diced
- 3 stalks of celery, diced
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 4 cups water
- 2 chicken bouillons
- 1 lbs. Italian sausage, mild, casing removed and cut into chunks
- 2 cans diced tomatoes
- 2 cups of dried lentils, soaked over 8 hours
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper ( or less if you don't like spicy)
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 2 bay leafs
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Directions:
In a saucepan, saute oil, onions, carrots and celery. When tender throw in a large dutch oven with the chicken broth, water and chicken bouillons. In the saucepan brown the sausage, when done put sausage into dutch oven and remove grease from saucepan. Add tomatoes with its juice, lentils, and seasonings. Simmer about 1 hour or until lentils are tender. Remove about 1/3 of soup ( do not remove sausage nor bay leaves) into the saucepan, and blend it with an immersion blender. Return it to the pot. Remove the bay leaves and serve!
Ready to be eaten!
Sauteing onions, celery and carrots, sausage ready to be browned next.
Soup simmering away
Pela foto parece que adorei....
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