Get ready for the cold with this soup recipe
- Mo Shimer
- Dec 4, 2023
- 2 min read
As it gets chillier with the winter coming, it's time to make some delicious, hearty soups! I have a lentil soup recipe for you. This plant-based soup is so good, you won't be missing the meat. If you want to feel younger and live longer, science is showing to eat more plant-based food. It's important to get all your anti-oxidants. This soup is also full of spices that help with inflammation of the body. Inflammatory diseases start to come about more when we age, but there are ways to prevent them. And one way is with the foods we choose. Try this! You won't be disappointed:
Lentil Soup Recipe
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, diced
2 carrots, peeled and sliced
2 celery stalks, sliced
3 garlic clove, minced
2 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 small sweet potato, diced in 1/2" cubes
1 cup of brown lentils, rinsed
4 cups of vegetable broth
8 oz. spinach
Directions
Heat olive oil on medium in the pan and add carrots, onion and celery. Cook for 5 minutes.
Add the garlic and spices and cook another 30 seconds to a minute, until fragrant. Stir constantly.
Pour in the sweet potato, lentils and vegetable broth. Raise heat to bring to a boil, then cover and bring the heat down to a low simmer. Cook for 25-30 minutes.
Add spinach at the end and stir until wilted.
Serve with a dollop of plain greek yogurt (if not a vegan) and squirt in a lemon slice.
(P.S. I make this in the instapot.. If you liked to do in the instapot, just saute the celery, onions, and carrots in the instapot for 5 minutes at first, then throw in the garlic and spices, do another minute. Then throw in the rest of ingredients except spinach. Pressure cook for 12 minutes and natural release for 10 min. Either add fresh spinach at the end or frozen spinach before you pressure cook. Both are good.)
My program teaches you all about ways to live longer without dieting! If you want to hear more about it, set up a time in my calendar for a zoom chat!
See you there!
Mo Shimer, CHC
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