Lentil Soup Recipe Arabic Style
Just consider the fact that this lebanese lentil soup or any middle eastern yellow lentil soup for that matter would cost you a fortune in a typical middle eastern restaurant.
Lentil soup recipe arabic style. Middle eastern lebanese lentil soup recipe. Toss in parsley stir in lemon juice and leave to cook for 2 3 minutes more. 50 min ingredients 6 cups chicken stock 1 pound red lentils.
Add to the pot. First you ll need to rinse and soak one and a quarter cups of split red lentils in cool water for 15 20 minutes. Add potatoes to the boiling water reduce heat to medium low cover the pot and cook until the potatoes are completely cooked about 12 minutes.
Stir in the lentils add the stock and cook for 35 minutes. Bring stock to a boil. So you can easily make it in a pressure cooker or in a pan the flavoring is simple as only salt turmeric and roasted cumin powder is added in it.
Lemon juice is added while serving and can not be skipped. One of my favourite things about making this lebanese lentil soup is that it uses a very cheap ingredient the lentil. Arabic lentil soup is made with red masoor daal red lentil which is quite easy to cook and easy to digest.
Continue to cook at a simmer another 5 minutes. Mix lemon juice crushed garlic and salt together in a bowl. Stir several times during cooking especially towards the end to prevent lentils from sticking to base of pan.
Add quartered onion garlic tomato and lentils. 30 min ready in. The amount of time will depend on the freshness of the lentils and whether or not they were soaked but plan on an hour to an hour and a half.