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Lentil and bacon soup
Ingredients
- 1 large chopped onion
- 1 small leek
- 1 large diced carrot
- 1 medium diced potato
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 50g butter
- 4 rashers of back bacon/half a packet of lardons
- 200g red lentils
- Chicken or vegetable stock
- 1 large bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon of cumin
- Salt and pepper
Recipe
- Heat pan, add butter until melted.
- Add the bacon and carrot, then the onion, leek and finally the potato and garlic. Keep frying until the root vegetables are softened.
- Add the lentils and stir until they are coated with butter/bacon fat.
- Add the stock, cumin, bay leaf, salt and pepper and stir well.
- Simmer for around 20 minutes, or until the lentils have cooked through properly.
Comments
This should give 4 good sized portions. You may wish to make more as you will want seconds, and possibly thirds!
Good with crusty bread.
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jamanda
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Just about to make this, only with home made pancetta rather than bacon. Should be nice and comforting.
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gil
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Just what you need on a chilly, blustery rainy day like today.
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starjump
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Love lentil soup, and this looks delicious. Can I suggest a squeeze of fresh lemon juice stirred into each bowl on serving? Its my favourite fix!
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Green Rosie
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Sounds lovely and guess who has chicken stock waiting to be turned into soup 
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oldish chris
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May I suggest a modified version: delete stock and bacon. Add: cook smoked gammon, boil (blah blah blah), have a nice dinner, reserve the water and use it to replace the deletions.
This will give a substantial meal at the cost of a few lentils.
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starjump
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Especially nice if you cook the gammon in cider/apple juice and water - the resulting stock makes fantastic soup with lentils or split peas.
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oldish chris
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Especially nice if you cook the gammon in cider/apple juice and water - the resulting stock makes fantastic soup with lentils or split peas. |
