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Tomato Lentil Soup With Brown Rice And Spinach Recipe
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Jo_jo_ba / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago
Brown rice is one of the finest, healthiest ingredients for a soup, wonderful for providing body, and works especially well with lentils. Adding in the fresh spinach brings a burst of colour, flavour and more nutrition.
Prep:20m Cook:90m Servings:4
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Ingredients
- 1 cup brown lentils, soaked for 4 hours and rinsed
- 2 cups baby spinach, washed and roughly chopped
- 1 medium celery stalk, whole
- 1 medium carrot, peeled but left whole
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 medium white onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 ¼ cups crushed tomatoes
- 1 cup short-grained brown rice
- Pinch saffron or turmeric
- Salt and pepper
Directions
- Rinse the lentils and cook them for 45 minutes in 2 quarts of water with the celery, carrot and bay leaf.
- Strain and reserve the broth, discarding the celery, carrot and bay leaf.
- Sauté the onion in ¼ cup of water with the garlic for about 5 minutes.
- Add the tomato sauce and cook 2 minutes more.
- Add the lentils and the spinach, followed by the lentil broth.
- When the soup comes to a boil, add the rice, saffron, salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes.
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jo_jo_ba 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 387.7
Total Fat: 2.1 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 331.0 mg
Total Carbs: 75.3 g
Dietary Fiber: 18.6 g
Protein: 18.2 g
cholena 1 year, 10 months ago said:
You are right . brown rice has benefits . Infact it helped me to lose 20 pounds of my pregnancy weight within couple of months : )
ccer 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Looks good! My kind of soup healthy and easy. I love brown rice but have yet to figure out the exact water / rice ratio when cooking it in a rice cooker - any advice for that?
lunasea 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Great post - am saving to try. Thank you!
amyliz 1 year, 10 months ago said:
This soup sounds wonderful. I will add this to my growing list of your recipes that I'm going to try beginning today with your Simple Winter Soup.
mrspotatohead 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Any kind of lentil soup is on my must try list - this one sounds great! Thanks!
squirrel_nut 1 year, 10 months ago said:
All hail the mighty lentil! this is quite different then the recipes i usually follow for lentils. no sausage chunks, no beef bullion, and no wostershire. sounds teriffic. will try very soon. thanks!
lang 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Looks pretty good and healthy, I'm going to make this dish for dinner tonight. Thanks