Grammy's Kitchen · Lentil Soup · Simple Red Lentil Soup
One of 41 lentil soup recipes we measured
from www.acouplecooks.com
16 cooks on www.acouplecooks.com rate it 4.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 41.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 475% | 522% |
| vegetables and beans | 67% | 186% |
| aromatics | 37% | 81% |
| fat | 12% | 9% |
| salt | 1% | 2% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 183 g | 3 large carrots |
| 150 g | 1 medium yellow onion |
| 120 g | 3 celery ribs |
| 18 g | 6 garlic cloves |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup olive oil |
| 1920 g | 2 quarts vegetable broth |
| 237 g | 1 cup water |
| 454 g | 1 pound split red lentils* |
| 10 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons smoked paprika |
| 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest | |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon kosher salt |
| Fresh ground black pepper | |
| Greek yogurt or sour cream (or cashew cream for vegan), for serving | |
| Cilantro, for serving |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.acouplecooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“We enjoyed this recipe. I did make changes "to taste" as we like bold flavors. I used a lot of extra garlic, only 1 TBSP of smoked paprika (which was plenty to us), lemon juice to taste instead of lemon zest, and I added a little bit of agave syrup at the e” — a cook, 4.0★
“Leaving this comment to provide a bit of balance. The only flavour is smoked paprika. As someone who cooked a lot of hunagarian goulash and had a delicious brown lentil soup I prepared In a bulk batch the month before as I do like lentil soup. This one is blan” — a cook, 2.0★