Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hearty lentil and butternut squash soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
After a long day when you need something soothing, nourishing and delicious to replenish you, this Hearty Lentil Soup with Roasted Butternut Squash, Kale and Bacon is the answer to what's for dinner. The Basics of Lentils First, let's talk a little bit about lentils. A member of the legume family, lentils are tiny nutritional powerhouses. Butternut Squash + Red Lentil Soup is a healthy and delicious fall vegan soup made with whole food plant based ingredients!
Hearty lentil and butternut squash soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hearty lentil and butternut squash soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have hearty lentil and butternut squash soup using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hearty lentil and butternut squash soup:
- Get 1 onion roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 carrot roughly chopped
- Make ready 3-4 cabbage leaves roughly chopped
- Take 1 pepper roughly chopped (I used a few different leftover ones)
- Get 1 garlic clove crushed
- Prepare 300 g (roughly) meat/veg stock of your choice (I did beef)
- Make ready 1 cup water (roughly)
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Get 1 teaspoon paprika
- Prepare 1/3 grated nutmeg
- Get 1/2 butternut squash chopped into bite size pieces
- Make ready 1 teaspoon olive oil/oil alternative
- Make ready 1 teaspoon savory
- Make ready 400 g tin of green lentils (could soak your own)
Roasting the squash adds a layer of complex flavor, versus starting with raw chopped butternut (as some recipes call for). Of course the requisite onion and garlic are used, and I also add fresh ginger and curry spices to really kick up the flavor. So here it is: a creamy, nutritious, curry-flavored soup with butternut squash, lentils, turmeric, coconut milk, ginger and garlic. To give it an extra umami flavor, I added in peanut butter and stirred in spinach for a little nutritional boost (kale would also work well).
Instructions to make Hearty lentil and butternut squash soup:
- Pre-heat oven to 180°c/350°f
- Put the onions In a pan and cook until lightly brown (can use a bit of oil or water as well to help)
- Put the onions in a pressure cooker or soup pot (just a big metal pot that goes on the hob), add the cabbage, pepper, carrot, garlic clove, bay leaf, paprika and nutmeg. Mix it all together. If using the hop, feel free to do it with the heat on for possible extra browning on other veg.
- Add the stock and water and mix. Let it cook until all the vegetables are soft, remove bay leaf, and then blend.
- Add in the lentils and cook for a further 20 minutes/until lentils are cooked.
- When you put the water and stock with the veg, set out a baking tray and line it with tin foil or baking paper. Spread the butternut squash on the baking tray and add the Savory and Olive oil. Mix together and put in oven, cook for 25 minutes.
- Add the roasted butternut squash to the soup and serve.
- Can garnish with chopped parsely of anything of your choice (like chilli flakes or extra nutmeg) and/or serve with sliced and buttered bread.
So here it is: a creamy, nutritious, curry-flavored soup with butternut squash, lentils, turmeric, coconut milk, ginger and garlic. To give it an extra umami flavor, I added in peanut butter and stirred in spinach for a little nutritional boost (kale would also work well). Lentil Soup with Butternut and Kale is comforting and nutrient-dense, thanks to the butternut squash, lentils, kale, and leeks. Lentil Soup with Butternut and Kale This vegetarian butternut squash lentil soup is like a bowl of comfort - the perfect way to warm up on a cold night. Add in the butternut squash, cumin, smoked paprika, coriander, turmeric, kosher salt and black pepper.
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