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Tomato Lentil Soup With Brown Rice And Spinach Recipe


Tomato  Lentil Soup With Brown Rice And Spinach Recipe
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.

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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
  1. Rinse the lentils and cook them for 45 minutes in 2 quarts of water with the celery, carrot and bay leaf.
  2. Strain and reserve the broth, discarding the celery, carrot and bay leaf.
  3. Sauté the onion in ¼ cup of water with the garlic for about 5 minutes.
  4. Add the tomato sauce and cook 2 minutes more.
  5. Add the lentils and the spinach, followed by the lentil broth.
  6. When the soup comes to a boil, add the rice, saffron, salt and pepper.
  7. Cook, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes.

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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


You are right . brown rice has benefits . Infact it helped me to lose 20 pounds of my pregnancy weight within couple of months : )


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?


Great post - am saving to try. Thank you!


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.


Any kind of lentil soup is on my must try list - this one sounds great! Thanks!


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!


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