This healthy, spiced carrot & lentil soup is your new weeknight savior! Packed with flavor, fiber, and warmth, it’s the perfect way to beat the chill.
Ingredients:
🫒 3 tbsp olive oil
🧅 1 onion finely chopped
🧄 5 garlic cloves chopped
🌿 2 tsp cumin seeds
🌱 1 tsp ground ginger
🌶️ 2 tsp chilli flakes optional to make spiced carrot and lentil soup
🥣 1½ cup dried red lentils
🥕 6 large carrots chopped into 3 inch pieces
🥣 6 cups water or vegetable broth
🧂 1½ tsp pink Himalayan salt omit if using vegetable broth as it may be too salty
🍋 2 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions:
🔥 Heat olive oil in a large pot on medium-low heat.
🧅 Add the onion and sauté until translucent.
🌿 Add the cumin seeds, ginger, chili flakes, and garlic. Sauté until fragrant. This helps bring the flavors out.
🥣 Add water/broth, lentils, carrots, salt and turn the heat up to high.
🌡️ Once boiling, reduce to low, cover the pot and let it simmer for about 30 minutes.
🥣 When you see that the lentils are cooked you can use an immersion blender to blend it into a smooth soup.
🍋 Squeeze fresh lemon juice, mix and taste in case you feel you need a bit more salt.
🍽️ Serve with some feta, parsley leaves, and a piece of crunchy toasted bread.
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super easy spiced carrot and lentil soup
that takes only 10 minutes to prepare
and you have a healthy simple and
heartwarming soup which is spiced with
cumin seeds Ginger chili flakes and you
mix red lentils carrots vegetable broth
olive oil and garlic cloves