Red Lentil Soup Recipe
Author:
Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
You can find the red lentil soup recipe, simple, cheap, delicious you will find in this post.
The preparation time is less than 20 minutes, which is great fun!
In terms of taste, I deliberately avoided Asian products and cooked a traditional German soup.
We leave coriander, soy sauce and curry in the kitchen cupboard today 🙂
I wish you good luck and a good appetite.
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Red Lentil Soup
Find below the step-by-step instructions for a safe preparation.
You can send me cooking questions via the comment function at the bottom of the page!
Red Lentil Soup
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 2
Calories 737
Preparation Time 10 Min.
Cook Time 10 Min.
Total Time 20 Min.
Simple instructions for preparing quick red lentil soup.
Ingredients
| 1 | Cup | lentils (250 g red lentils) |
| 3 | Pieces | glove of garlic |
| 50 | g | butter |
| 1 | tbsp | Olive oil |
| 250 | ml | Vegetable broth (250 ml water + 2 teaspoons broth) |
| 125 | ml | Cream |
| 2 | Pinches | primal salt |
| 2 | Pinches | brown can sugar |
| 2 | tbsp | pumpkin seed oil |
| 1 | Bunch | fresh herbs (bloody dock or parsley) |
Instruction
Preparation step 1 
Ingredients Red lentil soup prepared in the kitchen.
Prepare ingredients
Prepare the ingredients for the soup.
Preparation step 2 
Oil and butter in the pot
Provide oil
Put the oil and butter in the saucepan.
Preparation step 3 
Peel garlic
Prepare garlic
Peel garlic cloves.
Remove green parts from garlic.
Preparation step 4 
Garlic prepared in saucepan with butter and oil
Garlic pot
Place the garlic in the saucepan with the butter and oil.
Preparation step 5 
Red lentils on a colander for washing.
Prepare lentils
Place the lentils in a sieve.
Preparation step 6 
Wash red lentils
Wash lentils
Rinse the lentils thoroughly under cold running water.
Preparation step 7 
Drain washed red lentils
Drain lentils
Drain the washed, raw red lentils well in a colander.
Preparation step 8 
Sauté garlic in oil and butter
Sauté garlic
Sweat the garlic in butter and oil and let it color slightly.
Preparation step 9 
Sauté the raw lentils in the pan with the garlic
Sweat lentils
Put the lentils in the pot and sauté briefly for 2 minutes.
Preparation step 10 
Deglaze the lentils with broth.
Add broth
Add the concentrated broth to the lentils in the saucepan and deglaze.
Preparation step 11 
Add cold water to the lentils
Add water
Add four times the amount of water to the lentils.
Preparation step 12 
Cook the lentils in broth
Boil lentils
Boil the lentils.
Preparation step 13 
Cook the lentils with the lid on
Put lid on
Put the lid on the pot and cook the lentils over low heat.
Preparation step 14 
Lentils cooking time 12 minutes according to packaging
Set Timer
The recommended cooking time for the lentils was 12 minutes on the packaging.
Preparation step 15 
Remove half of the softened lentils from the pot onto a sieve.
Remove lenses
A notice:
I tried my lentils after 9 minutes and they were sufficiently cooked.
Place half of the lentils in a sieve.
Preparation step 16 
Prepare lentils for serving
Provide lenses
Prepare half of the lentils to serve as a soup garnish.
Preparation step 17 
Remove the garlic.
Remove garlic
Remove the garlic cloves from the pot.
You can eat the garlic, serve it with the soup later, or throw it away.
Preparation step 18 
Add the cream to the lentil soup
Add cream
Bring the lentil soup to the boil and slowly add the cream.
Preparation step 19 
The red lentil soup while mixing.
Mix soup
Blend the soup with the hand blender.
Preparation step 20 
Salt the red lentil soup
Salt soup
Season the soup with salt.
Preparation step 21 
Season the red lentil soup
Season soup
Season the soup with cayenne pepper, black pepper and a little sugar and fine-tune the taste.
Preparation step 22 
Mix up the red lentil soup before serving
Foam soup
Before serving, mix the soup with a hand blender until fluffy.
Hold the hand blender on the surface of the soup and create a stable foam.
Preparation step 23 
Arrange the red lentils in the soup plate
Arrange lentils
Arrange the hot lentils on warmed plates.
Preparation step 24 
Serve the red lentil soup
Pour soup
Pour the soup into the plates with the lentils.
Preparation step 25 
Decorate red lentil soup
Serve
The soup with
–> Droplets of pumpkin seed oil
–> Lay on the leaves of the sorrel
–> Gently sprinkle with fine chilli flakes
Serve quickly and enjoy.
Enjoy your meal!
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2. Nutrition Facts and Calories
3. Tips For Red Lentil Soup Variations
You can also prepare this red lentil soup relatively easily in variations:
- You can leave out the butter and make the soup vegan with olive oil.
- Use cold olive oil to mix the soup.
- Use soy cream or soy cream instead of cream for a vegan version.
- You can decorate or supplement the soup with parsley, chervil and lovage instead of sorrel.
- You can add sliced Viennese sausages as a soup ingredient.
- You can add sliced sausages to soups.
- You can add tofu strips or tofu cubes as a soup ingredient.
- You can prepare and enjoy the soup exactly according to the instructions, it tastes wonderful.
Now let’s look at the oldest existing rumor about cooking lentils.
4. For Good Taste Boil Lentils In Broth
We often read in cooking instructions:
Lentils should only be salted after they have been cooked, otherwise they are said not to become soft.
That’s just plain wrong.
I learned how to cook lentils in high-end gastronomy and we always used broth to cook the lentils.
I haven’t changed that even after 30 years and my lentils are always fine and delicious.
Lentils soaked in cold water taste like water because the lentils absorb the water.
Taste can then no longer be supplemented well, because the soaked lenses absorb nothing more.
Cook the soup or the foamy lentil stew exactly according to the instructions and form your own opinion.
You can cook lentils in broth.
Tip for cooking red lentil soup from chef Thomas Sixt
It’s guaranteed to taste delicious and the lentils will be soft on the palate!
5. More Ideas With Lenses
Here in the food blog you will find more delicious dishes with lentils:
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Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
Below you can write to me directly.
Please don’t forget the star rating on the recipe, 5 stars means you liked it!
Hi Cynthia,
THX for your great Feedback!
You can also check the foamy Squash Soup
Good Luck and Fun!
Thomas
My compliments: Only a few ingredients – highly appreciated! Cheers Clarice
Thank You 🙂 Clarice
Hello Thomas,
This is a really simple and beautiful soup.
There are so few ingredients and I like that very much.
Thanks for your great idea with the frothing.
I will try that more often now.
Love greetings Cynthia