Vegan Lentil Soup
This recipe is amazing – very simple, very inexpensive to make, but with a HUGE payoff. It costs about $10 to make 10 servings of this organic soup. My 2.5 year old son loves it, and it packs more nutritional punch than that organic canned soup line I used to buy.
Ingredients
1 TB organic olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium yellow onion, small dice
1 carrot, small dice
1 celery stalk with leaves, small dice
6 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, washed and diced
1 teaspoon salt
½ pound brown lentils, washed and drained
4 cups No-Chicken organic vegetable stock
Extra water as needed
Directions
- Warm the olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat.
- Stir in the garlic and warm until the garlic becomes fragrant.
- Add the onion, carrot, celery, mushrooms and salt. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring often.
- Add the lentils and stock*, plus enough water to cover the veggies and lentils by one inch.
- Raise the heat to medium-high to bring to a boil. Lower heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 30 minutes.
*Optional: stir in 1 cup chopped spinach, or ½ cup diced yams or butternut squash
** For kiddo’s lunch, pre-heat a thermos with hot water in the morning and re-heat the soup for a few minutes. Pour out the water and fill with warm soup. Will provide a warming, satisfying school lunch.
Thanks for the recipe – I’ve been looking for one! I had Amy’s Lentil soup for lunch, which I love, but it costs $3.39/can. I’m sure this will be much more economical. One question- roughly how many cups is 1/2 pound of lentils? Thanks!
1/2 pound of lentils is about 1.5 cups – Alex
This looks delicious and just in time for fall. Thanks Alex!
Thank you, Alex! What I love is that I know I can trust your recipes to be healthy, nutritious, and tasty. You are helping my husband and me to gradually change our habits to be healthier middle-aged adults.
Thank you thank you thank you! I’ve already used this recipe so many times! Its such an excellent starting point. I’ve been using the method, and modifying it with whatever vegetables are locally available at the time. Success always. I live in a house with four men, and a pot of this lasts all of us several days, getting more and more delicious as the flavors meld. Great with cayenne pepper, great with shoyu, great with whatever you like.