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Sunshine Lentil Soup Quick, Easy and Extra Lemony

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Sunshine lentil soup is easy, warming & brightly flavoured with lemon.
 
Sunshine Lentil Soup is Easy, Warming & Brightly Flavoured with Lemon

If ever there was a soup to help you through the slushy (or icy, or snowy) month of March, this is it. Easy to make, warming, and brightly flavoured, sunshine lentil soup with lemon makes a quick supper on a messy evening when you just want to curl up by the fire and dream about riding your bike in your shorts.

I had a March like that when I was little, where I dreamed about riding my bike. In grade five I won a new bicycle in a poster contest. It was a five-speed with curled handlebars so looked like a 10-speed – my first grown-up bike. But it was March and slushy so instead of just tucking it away in the garage mom let me keep it in the house for a week so I could ride it from one end of the kitchen to the other.

Sunshine lentil soup is easy, warming & brightly flavoured with lemon.
 
It’s the lemon in this soup that will help transport you out of winter. The recipe calls for the juice of an entire lemon and don’t skimp, because that sunny flavour takes this soup beyond winter.
 
Delicious served with freshly made cheesy drop biscuits hot out of the oven.
 
 
The recipe is a slight adaptation of a recipe in the excellent cookbook, Whitewater Cooks.

Sunshine Lentil Soup

Recipe by Bridget OlandCourse: Soups, Main DishCuisine: Vegetarian, VeganDifficulty: Easy
Servings

6

servings
Prep time

10

minutes
Cooking time

30

minutes
Total time

40

minutes

Easy to make, warming and brightly flavoured, it’s a quick satisfying supper.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup red lentils

  • 1 Tbsp. olive oil

  • 1 onion, diced

  • 1 tsp. salt

  • ¼ tsp. freshly ground black pepper

  • 3 cloves garlic, minced

  • 2 medium carrots, in ½” dice

  • Pinch of red pepper flakes

  • ½ Tbsp. oregano

  • ½ Tbsp. dried rosemary

  • 1 bay leaf

  • 5-6 cup vegetable or chicken stock

  • Juice of one lemon

Directions

  • Rinse and drain the lentils and set aside.
  • In a large pot over medium heat warm the olive oil until it shimmers. Add the onion and saute until soft. 
  • Add the salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic, and carrots. Saute until the carrots are tender.
  • Add herbs, bay leaf, 5 cups of the broth and drained lentils. Stir to break up any clumps of lentils. 
  • Bring to a simmer and cook until the lentils are soft. Add remaining cup of broth if you’d like to thin it out a bit. 
  • Stir in lemon juice and adjust seasoning (salt & pepper) if necessary.
  • Ladle into big bowls and serve with crusty bread and Parmesan cheese.
 

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