French Lentil Soup With Garlic Sausage Food

LENTIL SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cover the lentils with boiling water and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Drain.
• In a large stockpot over medium heat, heat the olive oil and saute the onions, leeks, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, and cumin for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are translucent and tender. Add the celery and carrots and saute for another 10 minutes. Add the chicken stock, tomato paste, and drained lentils, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer uncovered for 1 hour, or until the lentils are cooked through and tender. Check the seasonings. Add the kielbasa and red wine and simmer until the kielbasa is hot. Serve drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with grated Parmesan.
• Place the chickens, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, parsley, thyme, dill, garlic, salt, and peppercorns in a 16 to 20-quart stockpot with 7 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Skim the surface as needed. Simmer uncovered for 4 hours. Strain the entire contents of the pot through a colander, discarding the chicken and vegetables, and chill. Discard the hardened fat, and then pack the broth in quart containers.

FRENCH LENTIL SOUP WITH SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté onion, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 6 minutes. Add carrots and celery and cook, stirring, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add lentils, water, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to moderate and cook, covered, until lentils are tender, about 30 minutes.
• While lentils are cooking, heat remaining tablespoon oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown sausage on all sides, about 5 minutes. Cool sausage slightly on a cutting board, then cut into 1/2-inch-thick pieces. Add sausage to soup and stir in vinegar.

GARLIC LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Put the lentils, onions, garlic, carrot, oil, bay leaves, marjoram or oregano and stock into a large saucepan.
• Bring to the boil and then simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Remove bay leaves and add the red wine vinegar as well as the salt and pepper to taste.
• You can thin the soup out if you like with a little stock or water before serving.
• To freeze: Freeze in a rigid container.
• To reheat: Thaw and heat through.

FRENCH LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions, celery, and carrots; saute until soft and just starting to brown, about 10 minutes. Add garlic and coriander and fry for 2 more minutes.
• Place in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add vegetable mixture, hot water, diced tomatoes with juice, and bay leaf. Cook on High until lentils are tender, 2 or more hours.
• Add bouillon cube, salt, and pepper. Stir, cover, and cook for 20 more minutes. Remove bay leaf and serve.

FRENCH LENTIL SOUP WITH SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté onion, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 6 minutes.
• Add carrots and celery and cook, stirring, until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add lentils, water, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to moderate and cook, covered, until lentils are tender, about 30 minutes.
• While lentils are cooking, heat remaining tablespoon oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown sausage on all sides, about 5 minutes.
• Cool sausage slightly on a cutting board, then cut into 1/2-inch-thick pieces. Add sausage to soup and stir in vinegar.
• Original poster's notes: You may substitue Chicken broth for water!

LENTIL SOUP WITH VEGETABLES AND ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in the bottom of your soup pot over medium heat. While the oil is heating, peel and chop the onions and garlic. When the onions and garlic are chopped, turn the oil up to medium-high heat and toss the onions and garlic in, stirring once in a while.
• Next, slice the andouille sausage into penny slices and add to the onions and garlic. Add ground cumin. Give it a stir.
• Next, chop the carrots and celery at an angle (longer cuts) and add them to the onions and sausage. Stir the mixture, turn the heat down to medium, and cover for about fifteen minutes.
• Put the canned lentils into a blender and add the ham base and half a can of water. Cover and liquify the canned lentils, blending for about five minutes or until completely smooth. You should end up with a thick puree. Add the puree to the soup pot and stir inches Fill your blender beaker two-thirds of the way with water, cover and blend for a few seconds until the leftover puree is in the water, and add that water to the soup pot as well. Bring the soup to a boil and turn down to medium- low heat. Cover the soup pot and ignore it for fifteen minutes.
• Put the pound of dry lentils in a strainer and rinse with col water until clean. Add to the soup pot, stirring until everything is mixed, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and cover. Cook for half an hour, stirring once in a while.
• After half an hour, add the frozen green beans and broccoli to the soup. Stir them in, cover, and simmer for another forty-five minutes to an hour, stirring once in a while. Salt and pepper to taste only after the lentils are tender and the vegetables are soft.
• The soup is done when the dry lentils are tender and the vegetables are soft. The broth should have a slightly spicy and smoky character from the sausage. Serve hot with warm baguette or your favorite quick bread.

LENTIL SOUP WITH ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Combine both stocks and lentils in a large pot.
• Over high heat, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
• In a skillet, over medium heat, add fennel seeds; saute until light golden brown, about 2 minutes.
• Remove seeds from skillet.
• Heat oil in same skillet over medium heat.
• Add celery, carrot, and onion; saute until onion is translucent and celery and carrot are tender, about 5-10 minutes.
• Add toasted fennel seeds, sauteen vegetables, sausage, thyme and Creole seasoning to soup.
• Cover and simmer until lentils are very tender, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes.
• Season soup to taste with salt and pepper.

FRENCH LENTIL SOUP WITH GARLIC SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat.
• When hot, add the carrots, onion, and celery; cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are just softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add the garlic, sausage, and thyme; cook 1 minute.
• Add the stock, bay leaves, and bring mixture to a simmer over high heat.
• Stir in the lentils, then decrease heat, cover, and cook at a gently simmer until tender, about 50 minutes.
• Remove and discard the bay leaves; remove the garlic pieces and transfer to food processor.
• Using a slotted spoon, strain 1/2 cup solids from the soup and puree them with garlic pieces in a food processor.
• Stir the pureed mixture into the pot; this will thicken the soup slightly.
• Taste soup and season with salt, as needed.
• To serve, ladle the soup into 6 serving bowls and sprinkle some parsley over each serving.