Spicy Lentil Soup (said with a lisp)

I am a big fan of lentil soup. I love how hearty and warming it can be. Over the past several years I have tried several lentil soup recipes and I have always been disappointed. The end result was a soup that was bland, other than the pungent garlic, starchy and not worth keeping for left overs.

My big sister and Mum had both said great things about a BBC Good Food Spicy lentil soup recipe. And so it was a little bit of skepticism that I decided to try once more to make a lentil soup.

I was happy to see that there was no garlic required in the recipe. There must be something about lentils that cause them to react with garlic, absorb the flavour and make it extremely pungent.

The soup was extremely easy to make and took only 30 minutes. I was surprised at how few lentils went into it.

The final product was a fragrant thick soup. In my opinion it was a tad on the thick side, I would have preferred it to be a little more on the 'soupier' side and so will adjust the amount of vegetable stock accordingly next time. A squeeze of fresh lime at the table helped to cut through the starch.

The flavour was wonderful. There was a lot of "mmmmmmmm" and "aahhhhhhh" and "finally a lentil soup that tastes the way lentil soup should!" I think Matt would have preferred to have eaten his soup minus the soundtrack.

What's great news is that there are leftovers for tomorrows lunch!!!!!

As he was tidying the dishes off the table Matt asked "Naomi, why is your bowl so clean?"

I had used my finger to swipe around the empty bowl to get every last delicious morsel of the soup.

If you like lentil soup I cannot recommend this too strongly. It was great! Try it!!

Cooking again tonight, so there might be another post later today. Dinner tonight is a spicy moroccon fish dish with ginger sweet potato mash and moroccan carrots.

Until then, as always, don't forget to kiss YOUR cook.