This rich, satisfying soup is really simple to make.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup chopped onion
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 1 large stalk celery, chopped
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- ⅛ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or more to taste
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper, or more to taste
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 1 ½ cups dry lentils
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in carrot and celery; cook, stirring often, until vegetables are tender, about 8 more minutes.
- Stir in tomato paste, crushed red pepper, cayenne pepper, salt, and black pepper; mix in chicken stock and lentils.
- Bring soup to a boil and reduce heat to low; simmer until lentils are soft, about 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 217 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 1 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 16 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 711 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I pured this after cooking … amazing
We make this regularly — it is tasty and quick and make a good inexpensive filling lunch.
Excellent!!!! I did a whole onion, doubled the carrots and celery, and added extra red pepper. On a side note – WW friendly!!!
Our family has some really picky eaters and they loved this soup! We did not have an onion so just skipped the first step and then sautéed the carrots and celery. We also substituted paprika for the red pepper flakes. We thought the soup was really spicy but not very hot.(:
We made a few adjustments. We roasted and cubed spicy Italian sausage and used our own stock from a pork roast and the bone marrow. We LOVE hearty lintel soup!
Great recipe, I added 4 slices of uncured turkey bacon chopped and a tsp of cumin. Family loves it. I make it at least once a week during the fall and winter months.. Yum
I did have to cook it longer than it said but other than that it was one of the best lentil soups EVER! And I am a very picky person
I added a pound of browned hamburger, the whole 8oz can of tomato paste and Tandoori spice instead of Cayenne. Absolutely wonderful dish!
I make this regularly and I love it! It’s simple, tasty, and healthy.
I am not sure what happened to mine. Mine turned very bland, and mostly tasting like lentils. I added some potatoes to it, and after that the spices seemed to diminish a lot, if not totally disappear. Before I added them, it was quite tasty and the spices were very prominent. If the potatoes are what changed it, then without them this is an excellent recipe. I am going to give it another go at a future date w/o potatoes.
Delicious!
Oh so yummy! I’ll be making this again.
We didn’t have celery. Added spinach.
Yes I would make it again. I made chicken broth with two legs and chopped up the meat added to soup. Its hearty and favorful.
I liked this soup.Very tasty. I added cut up potatoes also and a bit more broth.
Great soup, made big batch bagged and froze, good for taking to work instead of the usual stuff.I think next one will be curried
Extremely easy and extremely good! What’s not to like?
Really tasty dish. I basically followed the recipe, using red lentils. I doubled the recipe, and added the zest and juice of half a lemon, 2 diced Roma tomatoes, and I boosted all the spices (I like garlic and red pepper!). My dried red lentils cooked in about 20 minutes as advertised. Very hearty and tasty. Will save this recipe.
Great hearty soup. My first time using lentils and I feel it was a success. I’m a spice head and also recovering from a shoulder injury so I loaded up on the anti-inflammatory turmeric, heavy cayenne, some sriracha, and extra garlic.
YUM! I used yellow lentils and extra veggies. Also, I’m not a fan of crushed red pepper so I used cayenne and chili pepper. I’m crushing bowls of this stuff even in 80 degree weather… it’s just that good.
Holy cow this turned out good! The recipe doesn’t specify but I used the tiny French green lentils instead of red or brown, I didn’t have chicken stock on hand so used water and chicken bouillon cubes. This was terrific. I added a dash more red pepper for extra bite. I also had some smoked sausage that I cubed and browned with the veggies but it would have still been fabulous without it. This recipe is simple and so good. I looked at other recipes before settling on this one, this has general items most people have on hand, no need for white wine or some of the other stuff the other recipes ask for, I plan to make this again! Thanks for sharing a good recipe!