Pumpkin and lentil soup - how to cook soup of brown lentils, step by step recipe photos

About a mess of pottage heard, certainly, all. Here are just a few who tried it. Soup is considered French cuisine and we cooked rare. And in vain, lentils can and should include in your diet to all, not just the French, and the adherents of a healthy diet!

Beans, to the family which it relates, in general, are very useful products: nutritious, rich in protein. But if the beans, the most common peas, not to mention the chickpeas, mung bean and other exotics, you need a very long time to cook, or, at least, pre-soak, the lentils are cooked immediately, literally within half an hour.

However, there are at this wonderful brown grain flaw - color. If you cook lentil soup in the usual way, it will be a brownish-greenish swamp that is extremely unappetizing. We'll have to "ugly duckling" to prepare separately, and then the natural mask unsightly attractive puree soup base.

How to cook soup of lentils brown

Wash grain fill it in a saucepan of hot water, bring to a boil, translate into minimal fire and closes the lid. An important feature of the cooking lentils: it, like all legumes, you can not add salt until cooked. Otherwise, she will cook will never, ever keep your day at the plate, and will remain solid. Now, until cooked lentils, we will deal strictly soup.

Lentil soup will cook "the sun", ie. E., Yellow. Therefore, vegetables and take from such a color spectrum: onion, celery, a mixture of white roots, lots of orange carrots, yellow squash and potatoes.

Typically, a bean as fats take bacon, sausage, bacon, fatty sausage, but our soup will be more dietetic. Therefore, to make zazharku tablespoons vegetable oil.

When the onions and carrots zazolotyatsya, pour in a pan chopped into large cubes potatoes and pumpkin. Remember that unprepossessing brown lentils, meanwhile, continues to quietly pobulkivat in a separate saucepan. Vegetarians or those who hold office, may fill with water the vegetables and skip the next paragraph, because it is about the broth and meat.

It is an essential thing to quickly cook the soup in meat broth, it is pre-cooked chicken and meat broth supnabora there. I zalyu their vegetables broth, lay them finely chopped meat and cook for about 10 minutes, until cooked potatoes.

The potato is ready - you can grind the next soup in a blender puree the gentle yellow.

Now came the solemn moment when we suddenly remembered that the cook is not that anyhow, and specifically a mess of pottage. Take the good faith gurgled its half-hour a saucepan and overturn its contents in our mash. The photo shows the result. What is not so beautiful? Easy, is not yet final!

It is now our soup with lentils you can add salt and pepper, add your favorite spices, dried or fresh aromatic herbs, how to mix and ...

... Here it is - a miracle! Ugly duckling became a princess, and a modest brown grain turned into a delicate, delicious, bright "sunny" lentil soup!