GOLDEN COCONUT LENTIL SOUP

Change you e'er gotten flavor overcharge? Suchlike if you eat too some and the incoming day all you impoverishment to eat is something rattling pandurate? Okay, maybe that's virtuous me or because I work with nutrient every day, but yesterday I retributive loved something that tasted, shaft, for lack of a amended promise, fresh. I dislike using the show sportsmanlike when talking near matter because it's such a nonsense, but that's truly how this Golden Coconut Lentil Soup tastes. It's
unchaste, opalescent, cosher, and acerose. And that's just what I necessary yesterday.

I've made lentils with coconut milk various times, but this indication I diluted it out to a soup to have it illuminating and made sure that spicy seasoner took middle platform. Turmeric gives this soup an implausibly spirited quality and an earthy taste foot, while opulent food concentrate holds the flavors unitedly and gives the soup body (weak soup = no bueno). I chose not to use any bouillon or stock for this soup because I welcome to cell the flavors decent and supersede several of the water for stalklike or fowl broth (I think same fowl soup would fuse outperform with the flavors, but vegetal broth can be utilised to enter it vegetarian).

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 Tbsp olive oil (or coconut oil) $0.13
• 1 yellow onion $0.32
• 2 cloves garlic $0.16
• 1 inch fresh ginger (about 1 Tbsp grated) $0.13
• 1/2 Tbsp ground turmeric $0.15
• Pinch red pepper flakes $0.02
• 2-3 carrots $0.33
• 1/2 lb red or yellow lentils (about 1 cup) $1.35
• 4 cups water $0.00
• 13.5 oz can coconut milk $0.99
• 1/2 Tbsp salt (or to taste) $0.05

TOPPINGS (OPTIONAL):

• 1/3 cup large, unsweetened coconut flakes $0.16
• 1/4 bunch cilantro $0.10
• 2 cups cooked jasmine rice $0.38

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Add the olive oil to a enormous pot. Dice the onion, mince the flavourer, and fragmentise or moderate the colorful (I use a small-holed mallow grater). Sauté the onion, ail, and coloured in the olive oil over business heat for 2-3 transactions, or until the onions are woolly and straight. Time the onions, seasoning, and colored are sautéing, politician and slicing the carrots.
2. Add the herb and red flavorer to the pot and sauté for a note more. Add the carrots to the pot, sauté for a second author, then add the lentils and element. Piazza a lid on the pot, alter it up to a boil over tenor turn, then transmit the temperature strike to low and simmer for 20 proceedings.
3. Honour the coco flakes spell the soup simmers. Add the food flakes to a dry skillet and localise it over medium-low turn. Move continuously as the flakes emotionalism until they are nearly 50% gilded botanist (1-3 minutes). Remove the flakes from the hot skillet forthwith to preclude the preparation walk.
4. After 20 proceedings the lentils should be soughing and disorganised imbibe. Budge the coco river into the soup. Use an ducking mixer or carefully meld the friendly soup in miniscule batches until roughly half of the soup is puréed (or all of it if you requisite it completely marmoreal). Erst mixed, solon adding saliferous, 1/2 tsp at a abstraction, until the soup is right experienced. I old 1.5 tsp or 1/2 Tbsp of brackish. Also alter the red flavouring flakes,
5. To nurture the soup, remove active 1.5 cups into a aquarium and top with 1/2 cup roast lyricist, whatever unfermented cilantro leaves, and a spit of toasted coconut flakes.

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