Food Sunday

So we had the first settling snow for this winter today, which made me wonder what food to use for today's recipe. In my opinion soups and stews are the perfect winter meal, and well let's face it who want to stand in front of the stove all day sweating to make a complete dinner when soups got all you need in them and hardly need any preparations at all. The recipe that I'm shearing today is a simple recipe that can be made completely vegetarian if you choose to use vegetable stock cubes.

Tomato Lentil Soup(4portions).

Ingredients:

1 small onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, grated
1 small piece of celeriac, grated
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 can of chopped tomatoes
1 dl red lentils, rinsed
1-2 stock cubes
0.5l of water
1 table spoon of paprika
oil or margarine
thyme
salt and pepper
sugar

Utensils:

chopping board
chopping knife
vegetable grater
sauce pan or cooking pot and lid
something to stir with
a sieve

How to cook:

1. Start with pealing the onion, carrot and celeriac, then finely chop the onion and grate the carrot and celeriac. Then mince the garlic, now the hard work is done.

2. Put some oil or margarine in the sauce pan or cooking pot when it's heated put in the vegetables and fry them for a little while, they should go soft but not get colour.

3. Put in the paprika and stir a little bit and then it's time to put in the stock cube, the caned tomatoes the water. Rinse the lentils and let it cook till the lentils are soft.

4. Try the soup to see if it need more salt and pepper. Put in some thyme to your own taste and serve with some bred.

If you want to alter the recipe I'd recommend to put in some different vegetable. I also sometimes put in some different spices, and to make it more fancy I myself sometimes put a dollop of sour cream on top of it when I serve it.