A healthy and filling vegan lentil soup booming with Middle Eastern spices and flavors. A great soup for those days when we all need a bit of soul warming.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup lentils rinsed
- 8 cups vegetable stock I used Trader Joes, which was very flavorful
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion finely chopped or put through a blender or food processor*
- 4 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 can stewed tomatoes 15oz, crushed
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 bunch of parsley finely chopped*
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 2 tsp sumac*
- 3 tsp 7-spice
- 1/4 cup brown basmati rice optional, uncooked *
- juice of 1 lemon
Instructions:
- Add olive oil to a 5 qt pot and sautee onions and garlic together and let them sweat. You do not want any color.*
- Add lentils and stock to this mixture and bring up to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover and continue simmering on medium low for 25 minutes•.
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