Adventures in Cooking: Easy lentil soup
Sep. 30th, 2011 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaLet me start this off by noting that this was made at the same time as I was making roasted red pepper sandwiches with bacon. So, that's where the bacon grease came from. >.>
I cooked about 2c (dry) of lentils in 4c water, with some garlic and onion powder in a large pot. I let it simmer while I was prepping other things. (Like the bacon for the sandwiches.)
Diced one large yellow onion. Cooked the onion in the leftover bacon grease.
When the lentils were tender, turned off the burner. Let onions cook until soft and sweet (about 15 minutes, total).
Added the onions to the lentils. (No, I didn't drain the grease. The onions and lentils soaked it all up.)
Also added one large can of crushed tomatoes, and a large bag of frozen veggies I wanted to use up.
More garlic powder, some curry powder, and salt to taste.
Stirred it, heated it until the frozen veggies were tender, then let it cool while we ate the sandwiches I had prepped on the side. Packaged it into those reusable/disposable containers. I filled up 4 2c containers, one quart container, and had a little left over that I put in a tupperware.
Note: do not microwave foods that contain tomato in plastic containers you want to stay nice! Tomato stains plastic, and is particularly bad if heated in it.
One 2c serving is a nice, filling lunch for me at work.
I cooked about 2c (dry) of lentils in 4c water, with some garlic and onion powder in a large pot. I let it simmer while I was prepping other things. (Like the bacon for the sandwiches.)
Diced one large yellow onion. Cooked the onion in the leftover bacon grease.
When the lentils were tender, turned off the burner. Let onions cook until soft and sweet (about 15 minutes, total).
Added the onions to the lentils. (No, I didn't drain the grease. The onions and lentils soaked it all up.)
Also added one large can of crushed tomatoes, and a large bag of frozen veggies I wanted to use up.
More garlic powder, some curry powder, and salt to taste.
Stirred it, heated it until the frozen veggies were tender, then let it cool while we ate the sandwiches I had prepped on the side. Packaged it into those reusable/disposable containers. I filled up 4 2c containers, one quart container, and had a little left over that I put in a tupperware.
Note: do not microwave foods that contain tomato in plastic containers you want to stay nice! Tomato stains plastic, and is particularly bad if heated in it.
One 2c serving is a nice, filling lunch for me at work.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 02:16 pm (UTC)If you use a light coating of oil on the plastic-ware, you can resist the tomato staining. I have also noticed that pre-packaged sauces stain worse than home made.
no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 09:36 pm (UTC)