Grammy's Kitchen · Lentil Soup · Mediterranean Lentil Soup
One of 41 lentil soup recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
It ranks #3 of 41 for vegetable texture among the lentil soup recipes we compared. 13 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 41.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 1000% | 522% |
| vegetables and beans | 126% | 186% |
| aromatics | 86% | 81% |
| fat | 14% | 9% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| acid | 59% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 27 g | 2 Tbsp olive oil ($0.32) |
| 150 g | 1 large yellow onion, diced small ($0.78) |
| 122 g | 2 medium carrots, diced small ($0.24) |
| 120 g | 3 stalks celery, diced small ($0.36) |
| 15 g | 5 cloves garlic, crushed ($0.30) |
| 4 g | 2 tsp ground cumin ($0.20) |
| 3 g | 1 tsp cinnamon ($0.16) |
| 192 g | 1 cup uncooked brown or green lentils ($0.68) |
| 1920 g | 8 cups vegetable broth ($1.44) |
| 113 g | 4 oz. lemon juice ($0.48) |
| 3 cups kale, chopped and lightly packed ($2.48) | |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt ($0.05) |
| 5 g | 2 tsp freshly cracked black pepper ($0.10) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Made this yesterday and it was fantastic! Made as directed, but added 2 cups of V8 juice I needed to use up + 6 cups water and a chicken bouillon packet (from ramen) for the liquid. Didn't really need much extra salt, I did use quite a bit of freshly ground bl” — a cook, 5.0★
“Loved this recipe, thank you for sharing it!! This was my first time making soup (and my first time eating lentils), and it turned out great! I only had chicken broth, so I used that instead, and it worked fine. I used it for meal prepping, and it held up r” — a cook, 5.0★