Wednesday’s dinner was lentil soup. Since I knew that I didn’t have much time to cook dinner, I decided to use precooked lentils from Trader Joe’s. I prefer to cook my own lentils, but when I’m short on time these precooked lentils work well.
Ingredients
- 2 medium sized onions, chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic (not visible in the picture – my assistant, the toddler, decided to play with them…), chopped
- 4 sweet potatoes
- 8 small carrots
- 1 package of steamed lentils
- pepper
- salt (if desired – the lentils already contain salt)
- 4 cups of liquid (I used 2 cups of Organic low sodium vegetable stock and 2 cups of water; the soup was quite thick, just the way I like it… You could easily use 6 or even 8 cups of liquid if you like your soup soupy…)
I started by sautéing the onions and then added the garlic, sweet potatoes, and carrots and sautéed everything for a few minutes. Then I added the lentils and sautéed everything for a few more minutes.
Next I added the liquid, reduced the heat to medium and cooked everything for about 20 minutes, until the vegetables were soft.
In the meantime I made a spicy yogurt sauce out of the following ingredients:
- Greek yogurt
- 1-2 tablespoons Aioli Garlic Mustard Sauce
- Basil
- Tabasco sauce (not pictured since my assistant is obsessed with the bottle, and I had to hide it from him)
The fresh basil added such a nice touch! We have been harvesting basil from the same indoor basil plant since late May! It’s the best basil plant ever… I am so thankful for this basil plant since I was so unlucky with my outdoor basil this year...
Here is the finished sauce.
Here is the finished soup; it was quite chunky, just the way I like it...
And here is the soup topped with the yogurt sauce. I ended up mixing the sauce right into the soup. The yogurt sauce added a nice tanginess and spiciness to the soup.
Questions: Do you like lentils? What is your favorite way to eat them?
Be well,
Andrea
