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Vegan Red Lentil Soup With Sumac Mint Sauce

Here's how you make Vegan Red Lentil Soup With Sumac Mint Sauce
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 9m
  • Cook: 40m
    • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 2 garlic cloves, smashed
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 cup sweet onion, chopped
  • 2 carrots, peeled, chopped
  • 12 ounces red lentils, rinsed (1 1/2 cups)
  • 6 cups vegetable stock
  • 2 tablespoons lemons juice
  • Topping
  • 2 tablespoon margarine, (butter if not vegan)
  • 1 teaspoon dried mint
  • 1 teaspoon ground dried sumac
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt, to taste
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Heat margarine and the smashed garlic cloves, stirring and letting things sizzle in the oil for a few minutes.

  • Step 2: Add tomato paste.

  • Step 3: Cook until the tomato paste starts to darken in colour.

  • Step 4: Stir in the cumin, coriander, and black pepper and let sizzle for a moment until fragrant.

  • Step 5: Add the onions and carrots,

  • Step 6: Add lentils, and stock, and give everything a good stir.

  • Step 7: Cook for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are soft and the lentils are almost dissolving.

  • Step 8: Stir occasionally adding water as needed.

  • Step 9: Add lemon juice and season to taste.

  • Step 10: Sauce: heat the margarine over medium low heat in a small pan.

  • Step 11: When melted and starting to foam up, add in the dried mint and ground sumac, and let sizzle for about 10 seconds, making sure to stir.

  • Step 12: Ladle the soup into bowls, and then top each bowl with a generous teaspoon of seasoned sauce.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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