Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup
May 15th, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Soups, Vegan Soups | 
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I found this recipe in the “Good Housekeeping” magazine. This recipe was featured under Heart Smart Dinners and Healthy in a Hurry category. With 16gms protein, 13gms fiber, 0mg cholesterol and just 1gm saturated fat per serving, it’s definitely heart healthy. Added bonus, very tasty and easy to prepare too.
I reduced the quantity of ingredients. Even then it was a lot of soup for the 2 of us. I have another serving left for tomorrow. Check the original recipe for actual quantities and detailed nutritional information.
Ingredients:
Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
Carrots, medium, chopped – 3
Onion, small, chopped – 1
Ground Cumin – 1 teaspoon
Canned diced tomatoes (14.5 oz) – 1 can (I didn’t have this, so used crushed tomatoes)
Vegetable broth (14.5 oz) – 1 can
Dried red lentils (masoor daal) – 3/4th of a cup
Baby Spinach (5 oz bag) – 1 (I used frozen spinach)
Salt – as per taste
Ground black pepper – as per taste
Grated ginger (this was not mentioned in the original recipe, but I chose to use it because red lentils especially has the reputation to cause gas)
Procedure:
1. In a saucepan heat oil and add carrots, onion and cook until lightly browned and tender. Stir in cumin; cook 1 minute.
2. Add tomatoes, broth, lentils, 2 cups of water salt, ground black pepper cover and cook until lentils are tender. Stir in spinach.
My Notes:
1. I soaked the lentils before starting to chop the vegetables. I did this because I thought that this will reduce the cooking time and it did. Later only I came to know that soaking the lentils and throwing away the water and then using the lentils aids in easy digestion. Just be sure to throw away the soaking water. Enjoy!
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May 19th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Mine too Vegeyum.
Thanks Dee. My husband took the pictures.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Love the soup recipe and great pictures Madhu!!
May 17th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Oh what a hearty soup! My style exactly.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
[...] Madhuram’s Eggless Cooking has a lovely red lentil and vegetable soup. [...]
May 17th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Thank you Trupti, Asha, Madhavi, Vanamala, Cynthia, Sukanya, Divya, Sunita, Rupa and Kumudha. The soups tastes as good as it looks. Try it definitely.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I have recently started to use masoor dal, and I just love the fact that it gets cooked so fast!
I should try this delicious soup sometime!
May 16th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Noted down…can’t wait to make it…I just love lentils.. Yum
May 15th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
What a deliciously hearty soup.
I like the new blog design – clean and elegant.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Red lentils are the most used lentils in our household:-)…your bowl of soup looks lovely
May 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Madhu the soup looks great..We have decided to have soup atleast once a week for dinner..So this is in my list..healthy one
May 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hi Madhuram..
This is a healthy soup. Sound so good. I used to make a soup green lentils. Love ur version. Looks great. So colourful.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Healthy soup … pic looks nice
May 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Soup looks delicious, like it
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May 15th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I got the old site of your’s first! New one looks great.
Grat looking soup, chockful of protein and tasty too!:)