Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, western style lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Western Style Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Western Style Lentil Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have western style lentil soup using 13 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Get 2 Bay leaves
2. Take Lentils (orange and green)
3. Take Corn
4. Get Lemon (cut in half)
5. Get 1 Potato
6. Prepare 1 Carrot
7. Prepare 2 tomato
8. Make ready 1/2 yellow capsicum/bell pepper
9. Get 2 pieces Ginger
10. Take Olive oil
11. Make ready Chopped garlic
12. Prepare Brown sugar
13. Make ready basil herbs

Steps to make Western Style Lentil Soup:

1. Boil water for the soup base
2. Chop the vegetables (potato, carrot, capsicum) and chop the garlic
3. Cut tomatoes removing the seeds and the jelly
4. Break the bay leaves in half and put them into the hot water (turn off the heat) and put lid on
5. Cut 2 pieces of ginger
6. Pan fry the ginger with olive oil
7. After moving it around in the pan for a bit, remove get rid of the ginger
8. Pan fry the chopped garlic
9. Stir fry the potatoes and carrots
10. Add yellow bell peppers to the mix
11. Sprinkle a bit of black pepper and salt
12. Add the tomatoes last to the stir fry
13. Sprinkle a bit of brown sugar
14. Add water (room temperature) to the mix just enough to cover the ingredients in the pan
15. Add basil herbs
16. Let it boil
17. Add lentils to the pot of boiled water
18. Add the cooked vegetables into the pot
19. Cook with lid slightly opened
20. Note: time taken to cook lentil soup depends on how much ingredients you have and how big of a pot
21. This recipe will take 30-45minutes to cook in the pot
22. The way to check if it's ready or not is to see if the potatoes and carrots are soft already
23. Add corn into the pot
24. After adding the corn, taste the soup
25. Add 1tsp of soy sauce
26. Add 1/2 tsp of vinegar
27. Add extra salt and brown sugar as you wish
28. Lastly, add a bit of lemon juice

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