Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, puy lentil soup:. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Puy Lentil Soup I always think that Puy lentils are the rather glamorous French cousins of our humble red lentils that formed the basis of my Mum's lentil soup. Puy lentils hail from France and can be bought dried or in cans. I always keep a few cans in the larder as they are a super healthy addition to soups and stews and taste great too. Today's soup takes us to the Le Puy region of France.
Puy lentil soup: is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Puy lentil soup: is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook puy lentil soup: using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Puy lentil soup::
- Take 1 Tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 small red onion, finely diced
- Take 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 medium potato finely diced
- Prepare 1 small carrot finely diced
- Prepare 2 sticks celery, finely diced
- Get 1 medium tomato, finely diced
- Take 1 large red chilli, halved
- Prepare 1/2 cup puy lentils
- Get 1 litre vegetable stock
- Take 2 tsp chopped fresh oregano
- Get pinch ground nutmeg
These slate green lentils grown in Le Puy, in the Auvergne Central region of France, are protected under an AOC label (Appélation d'origine controlée), testifying to their authenticity. What you'll need to make French Lentil soup. You can also order them online (affiliate link). They are definitely worth going out of your way to find but if you can't get them, go ahead and use common green or brown.
Instructions to make Puy lentil soup::
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Cook the onion and garlic over medium heat until the onion is soft.
- Add the potato, carrot, celery, tomato and chilli and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Stir in the lentils, vegetable stock, oregano and nutmeg.
- Bring the soup to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Season to taste and serve.
You can also order them online (affiliate link). They are definitely worth going out of your way to find but if you can't get them, go ahead and use common green or brown. This is a hearty, healthy soup full of flavour and goodness. Smoky Tomato & Puy Lentil Soup "This is a little like a lentil minestrone with a few spices added, one of which is the paprika that gives the soup a smoky kiss. You can adapt the soup to suit the time of year, just serve as it is for a warm and comforting cuddle in winter or add vibrant green vegetables for spring and summer.
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