Turkish Red Lentil Soup
Recipe: #26393
July 04, 2017
Categories: Beans, Middle Eastern, Gluten-Free, High Fiber, Low Cholesterol Low Fat, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Kosher Dairy, more
"One of Turkey's most popular soups. Serve with a crusty bread."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (537.7 g)
- Calories 391
- Total Fat - 7.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.5 g
- Cholesterol - 7.6 mg
- Sodium - 84.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 62.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 23.2 g
- Sugars - 5.6 g
- Protein - 19.5 g
- Calcium - 90.2 mg
- Iron - 6.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 28 mg
- Thiamin - 0.7 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place lentils, rice. onion, carrot, potato, water and oil in a large heavy pan. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for about 35 minutes or until the lentils, rice and the vegetables are cooked, stirring occasionally to make sure lentils do not stick to pan.
Step 2
Add butter, cumin, red pepper flakes and lemon juice, Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste.
Step 3
Serve hot with a wedge of lemon, if desired.
Tips
No special items needed.