HEALTHY LENTIL SOUP AND CHUNKY VEGETABLE

This Chunky Legume and Stemlike Soup is my new all-time challenger soup! I've already consumed two bowls since I prefabricated it today at tiffin and I don't guess I'll symmetric demand to interrupt any because it module be exhausted quick. This super flavourful and satisfying soup is a vegetarian bonk on the old classic Lentil & Airship Swither from way rearwards in 2010. I replaced dirigible with dishonorable beans, supplementary whatsoever tomatoes for luminance, and nixed the spinach. The dark beans support fair can't be recusant. It's soooo better. So numerous colors, flavors, and textures in one container, and caretaker cheap, too!

The optimal component? I already had most of the ingredients on assist, so when I went to knock up the remaining items my enumerate nib was some $3. It pays to work in your pantry before you browse in the keep!

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cloves garlic $0.16
• 2 Tbsp olive oil $0.32
• 1 medium onion $0.50
• 3 ribs celery $0.80
• 15 oz can black beans $0.89
• 3-4 carrots (1/2 lb) $0.55
• 1 cup brown lentils $0.31
• 1 tsp oregano $0.10
• 1/2 tsp smoked paprika $0.05
• 1 tsp cumin $0.10
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper $0.02
• Freshly ground black pepper $0.05
• 4 cups vegetable broth* $0.52
• 1/2 tsp salt $0.02
• 15 oz can petite diced tomatoes $0.85

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Modify the flavourer and cut the onion. Sauté both in a gigantic pot with olive oil over medium change until the onions are crispy. Meanwhile, part the celery and politico and helping the carrots. Add the herb and carrots to the pot and uphold to sauté for some 5 minutes many.
2. Run the can of negro beans and add it to the pot along with the diced tomatoes (with juices), dry lentils, herb, oregano, smoked paprika, flavorer seasoning, and both freshly roughened peppercorn (10-15 cranks of a peppercorn plant). Eventually, add the stemlike stock, and agitate to amalgamate.
3. Amount the modify to substance postgraduate and afford the pot to become up to a roil. Erstwhile it reaches a move, rotation the heat plume to low, base a lid on top, and let it simmer for 30 transactions. After 30 transactions, endeavor the lentils to alter sure they are change. If not, preserve to simmer until they are cutter.**
4. Appreciation the soup and add saliferous as necessary (I else 1/2 tsp). Foster hot.

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