Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, turkish lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Smooth, spicy, and nutritious, Turkish Red Lentil Soup is simple to make and is best served with a squeeze of lemon and drizzle of paprika-infused oil. In this video we are going to show you how to make traditional very delicious turkish lentil soup! It's a very popular soup recipe in Turkey.
Turkish lentil soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Turkish lentil soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook turkish lentil soup using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish lentil soup:
- Take 1 cup red lentil
- Make ready 1 big onion chopped
- Prepare 3-4 tablespoon olive oil
- Take 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
- Take 1 medium potato cut in cubes
- Make ready 1 medium carrot cut in cubes
- Get 1 medium tomato chopped
- Get 2 tablespoon chopped parsley
- Get 2-3 tablespoon tomato paste
- Prepare 1 teaspoon chilli flakes
- Take 1 tablespoon paprika
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoon dry mint leaves
- Take 1 tablespoon pepper powder
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoon butter
- Take to taste Salt
Sift through to remove and debris or damaged beans. Lentil soup is a soup based on lentils; it may be vegetarian or include meat, and may use brown, red, yellow or black lentils, with or without the husk. Dehulled yellow and red lentils disintegrate in cooking, making a thick soup. It is a staple food throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Steps to make Turkish lentil soup:
- Wash red lentil and soak for 15 minutes.
- In a deep bottom vessel add olive oil. Add chopped onion and fry till they are translucent.
- Add chopped garlic and fry for few minutes.
- Add cut potato and carrot. Fry for few minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes. Add little bit of salt. Cover and cook till the tomatoes are mushy.
- Add soaked lentil, chopped parsley and adequate amount of water. Cover and slow cook till lentil snd veggies are done.
- Blend it into a smooth mixture.
- Mix tomato paste, paprika and chilli flakes.mix it into the soup mixture along with crushed dry mint leaves and pepper powder. Add some butter and adjust the salt. Cook till it get the required consistency.
- Tasty traditional Turkish lentil soup is ready to serve
Children love the Turkish soup and it' s also vegan. Consider it the Turkish version of a Jewish chicken soup! Serve with a tablespoon of thick yoghurt drizzled over the top and some black pepper. Enjoy as a starter or on its own with lots of crusty bread. Turkish red lentil soup is filling, nutritious, packed with fibre, protein and vegetables, with just the right amount of lemon and spice.
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