Red Lentil Soup
Turkish: Mercimek Corbasi
Although this is a lentil soup, the potato is maybe the most dominant ingredient. Maybe that’s why this is one of my favourite soups, and definitely my favourite Turkish soup. Easy to prepare as well!
Ingredients for 4 persons:
4 dl red lentils
1 onion
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp Turkish tomato paste
1 tomato
2 carrots
2-3 potatoes
1½ l water
1 cube vegetable bouillon
herbs
chilli
black pepper
salt
Directions:
- Wash the lentils
- Chop onion and fry in butter in a big sauce pan
- Add Turkish tomato paste
- Add chopped tomato to the frying onion
- Chop carrots and the potatoes
- Add water, carrot, potato, bouillon and lentils to the onion mix
- Boil until the lentils start to break
- Mix into a pure
- Boil for some more minutes while adding the herbs (I generally use mint and parsley), chilli, black pepper and if necessary a bit salt
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