This is one of those dishes that contains the menu of any hostess. Includes very few ingredients. Quick, easy to cook. This is the perfect family dinner. Lentil soup is very tasty and nutritious, can be cooked in meat or vegetable broth. I like lentil soup with bacon more. The main product for our dish is lentils. It is available at most grocery stores. We will cook lentil soup. The recipe is simple. Simple and delicious. Fantastically delicious soup!
Every housewife always has some basic vegetables in the refrigerator - onions, carrots, parsley, and others. They will be the basis for our dish.
Ingredients (for a 2 liter soup pot):
- lentils - 1/2 cup;
- onions - 2 medium onions;
- carrots - small - 1 pc.;
- potatoes - 5-6 medium-sized potatoes;
- bacon - 100 gr.;
- bay leaf - 1 pc.;
- parsley, dill, green onion feathers - to taste;
- salt, black pepper - to taste.
Cooking:
- Pour water into the pan and set it on fire.
- Finely chop 1 onion and dip it in boiling water, let it boil for about five minutes.
- At this time, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the boiling onion broth.
- Wash the lentils and add to the pan, just boil for 10-15 minutes.
- Add potatoes - let cook until tender.
- When the potatoes are almost ready, add salt, pepper and bay leaf.
- Put the bacon, chopped into strips, into the pan. It should be fried until light crunch. Fried bacon gives the soup an exquisite taste and special aroma.
- Finely chopped onions - to the bacon in the pan. When the onions are fried until light golden and transparent, add the contents of the pan to the soup.
- Remove the "lavrushka", add the finely chopped greens.
- That's it, lentil soup is ready! Enjoy your meal!
Those who like sourness in soups can add juice of lemon slices to a plate before eating.