Easy Lentil Soup Recipe - Turkish Lentil Soup
When I am depressed or having constant anxiety; lately it’s been all the time — my go to comfort food is home made Turkish Lentil Soup. I watched my grandmother make it countles times when I was a kid. I feel like she is with me every sip of the way.
Here is the recipe: key ingredient is lots and lots of fresh lemon juice.
Turkish Lentil Soup Recipe
2 yellow onions 🧅
2 carrots 🥕
5 garlic cloves 🧄
Celery stalks
1 table spoon tomato paste
1 regular bag of green, yellow or red dry lentil
1 tea spoon of Salt, pepper, sugar
2 table spoons of olive oil
2 Turkish bay-leaves I brought from Turkey 🇹🇷
Cilantro
Fresh Lemon juice
Wash your lentils thoroughly.
Mix all the ingredients with olive oil and sauté until kitchen is filled with great smells about 6 to 7 min on high heat.
Cover the pot with water.
Add two Turkish bay-leaves, mix and boil in high heat for a few min, lower the heat down, cover your pot and cook on the stove for about 30 to 40 min until all vegetables are soft.
REMOVE THE BAY-LEAVES!!!!
Use a hand blender and blend the soup in the same pot. You can keep chunks of vegetable or make it thin as you can. I like my soup thin with no chunks.
For garnish, chop some cilantro, fresh garlic two cloves is enough, mix in a bowl with lemon juice, salt and pepper and add on top of your soup.
Enjoy and please share. Let’s make this everyone’s traditional comfort soup.
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