Yummy lentil soup recipie?

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Please does anyone have a recipie for lentil soup? I cannot eat enough of this at the moment and fancy trying to make it!

My sister's recipe:

one potato
one carrot
stick of celery
350ml veg stock
30g red lentils
teaspoon tom puree
teaspoon mild curry paste/ powder
garlic clove
one onion

fry curry stuff with teaspoon olive oil and garlic for one min
make stock
throw everything else in the pan
stir and cook for 40 mins it reckons, i reckon 20

My recipe

Tomato and Lentil Soup

This is a very rough recipe ? I make it up as I go along with whatever is lurking in the cupboards/ fridge.

Basic ingredients:
Big tin of tomatoes (I chop them up a bit)
Handful or 2 dried red lentils

Some other things to add:

Sauteed onion (you won?t notice it once you blend the soup but it adds flavour)
Potato, chopped into small cubes (I find lentils cook better when boiled with a spud. No idea why)
Carrots ? chopped up
Celery ? (sliced thinly-ish)
Garlic
Other veg
Spices if you like (Tabasco sauce, paprika, chili powder, whatever you fancy)

Stuff to add at end, if you want to:

Cheese
Cream
Spinach

?Bring the tomatoes (juice & all) to boil
?Add other veges. Bring back to the boil.
?Add lentils.
?Leave to simmer until the lentils are soft (~ 45 mins ? 1 hr)
?Carefully blend using a hand blender to get desired consistency
?Add seasoning as required (lots pepper, bit of salt)
?Serve immediately or leave to cool & reheat later

?Add ?stuff to add at end?

Freezes well

moroccan harira:

stir fryin 1 tbsp olive oil:
-1 finely chopped onion & 2 cloves garlic
-1tsp cumin + 1tsp paprika (+ a little chili powder if you like)

• finely chopped celery (3 stalks) and carrot (1)
• finely chopped parsley and coriander (handfull each)

Add can chopped tomato and season.

Add 1 cup lentils ( green better) and 2 pints water and simmer 45mn

Add 1 can drained chickpeas if you like and simmer another 15mn

Traditionally served with wedge of lemon.

Lentil soup - v. basic and easy recipe

1 chopped onion, - cook for 5 mins until softened
2 carrots chopped
2 potatoes Add carrots and potatoes cook for few
minutes.
1 cup of lentils
Vegetable stock Add lentils and veg stock, bring to the
boil, cover, reduce heat, simmer for 30
minutes.
Blend soup till smooth, when you serve squeeze some lemon juice on soup when in bowl.

Thanks! Going to attempt today, will report back later!

Me again, just to say many thanks for all the advice re lentil soup. I made it today, ably assisted, where possible, by 2 1/2yr ds. Wow I am so delighted with how it turned out, really warming for our freezing weather.