Spanish Sausage And Lentil Soup
From crainny 12 years ago
- 120 to make
- Serves 8
This is supposed to be a traditional Spanish dish, but there are so many versions of it that I thought my rendition posting won't infringe any copyrights. It's hearty, comforting and self-cooking. Just throw stuff together and simmer. Read more It doesn't look good first hour, but as lentils soften, they give the soup this creamy almost silky look and it smells fantastic. See less
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter or oil, up to you shopping list
- 4-5 chorizo sausages in natural casings, chunked into 4 pieces each shopping list
- 2 carrots, diced shopping list
- 2 onions, diced shopping list
- 2-3 stalks celery, diced shopping list
- 2-3 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed shopping list
- 1 to 1-1/2 cups mixed whole lentils, I used french, green, and mung beans (yep, I am that crazy) shopping list
- 1 bay leaf shopping list
- a few stalks of parsley shopping list
- 2 sprigs of thyme shopping list
- 20 whole black peppercorns, crushed shopping list
- 1 tsp ground cummin shopping list
- 3 cardamom pods, crushed shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
- 2-3 cloves of garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 tbsp vinegar to finish shopping list
How to make it
- Melt butter in a dutch oven
- Toss in the sausage chunks and brown on all sides lightly
- Add carrots, onions and celery, saute until fragrant and onions are translucent
- Add about 6-8 cups of water
- Add potatoes and lentils, bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer
- Add herbs and spices, salt to taste.
- Cook at least 2 hrs very slowly, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
- If necessary, add some water.
- The soup won't look very appealing in the first hour, once it develops flavor and lentils cook through, it will become beautiful.
- When flavors blend well and soup becomes rich in color and taste, add minced garlic, simmer for about 10 more minutes.
- Remove thyme sprigs and bay leaf at this point.
- Remove from the heat, add vinegar and freshly chopped parsley.
- Cover and let sit for a few minutes to finish the flavor development.
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