Lentil Soup Bread Food

LENTIL AND VEGETABLE SOUP IN A BREAD BOWL

Steps:

• Rinse the lentils in cold water and drain well. Rinse the leek well and slice. Peel onion and chop finely. Rinse, peel and dice the carrots and parsnip. Remove the strings from the celery and thinly slice. Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion and saute until translucent.
• Add the carrots, parsnip, celery and spices and cook, stirring occasionally until the vegetables are crisp-tender. Add the lentils and stir to combine. Pour in the vegetable broth and simmer over low heat until the lentils are tender, about 45 minutes. Season the soup with salt, pepper and vinegar and serve as desired in small, hollowed out rye breads.

LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• The night before, wash the lentils and let soak overnight covered in cold water.
• Next day, drain the lentils.
• In a large dutch oven or soup pot, saute the diced bacon until golden brown.
• Add sliced onions and diced carrots and saute until the onions are golden.
• Add the lentils, water, sliced celery, salt, pepper, thyme and bay leaves.
• With a grater, grate the peeled potato into the lentil mixture.
• Add the ham bone.
• Simmer, covered, for about 3 hours. The lentils should be tender.
• Remove the bay leaves and ham bone. Cut all bits of meat from the ham bone and return the meat to the soup.
• To serve at once, add the lemon juice and enjoy!
• To serve the next day, refrigerate soup adn then add the lemon juice and reheat.

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.

BROWN LENTIL AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Add carrots, celery and onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until vegetables begin to soften.
• Add tomatoes, zucchini and stock to pan. Cover and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low.
• Simmer, partially covered, for 15 minutes or until vegetables are soft.
• Add lentils to soup. Cook for 5 minutes or until heated through.
• Sprinkle with parsley and squeeze lemon juice.
• Season with freshly ground black pepper.

LENTIL BREAD

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the lentils, water, onion and garlic; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until lentils are tender. Cool slightly. Transfer mixture to a blender or food processor; cover and process until smooth. Cool to 110°-115°., In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, lentil mixture, oil, sugar, Parmesan, salt, whole wheat flour and 3 cups bread flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining bread flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into thirds; shape into loaves. Place in three greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 375° for 35-45 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

KURDISH LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Put shelled yellow or red lentils in a medium heavy pot, and cover with cold water by 3 or 4 inches (about 10 cups).
• Bring to a quick boil, skimming froth as needed.
• Lower heat to low and let simmer, covered, until lentils are thoroughly cooked, about 30 minutes.
• For a creamy texture, whisk the mixture with a whip until smooth, a few minutes.
• Add salt, black pepper, curry powder, and broken vermicelli noodles.
• Stir well.
• Keep simmering and stir occasionally to prevent soup from sticking to the bottom of the pot until soup is nicely thickened, about 15 minutes.

LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the stock in a large pan and add the lentils. Bring to the boil and allow the lentils to soften for a few minutes.
• Add the carrots and leeks and season (don't add salt if you use ham stock as it will make it too salty). Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 45-60 mins until the lentils have broken down. Scatter over the parsley and serve with buttered bread, if you like.

LENTIL SOUP BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine all ingredients. If dough seems dry, add just enough water to combine all dry ingredients easily into a moist dough. Put mixture in a greased loaf pan. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from oven. Spread butter over top of loaf. Place back in oven and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes.