What can be eaten with Lentil soup to make it more filling?
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Lentils and rice is a favorite dish of mine. I like to top it with caramelized onions. Serve with a green salad containing all sorts of raw veggies and cornbread or a crusty baguette.
I made lentil soup for my sick daughter yesterday. It was very filling, but it was also very thick, more like a stew.
It's basic mirepoix to start then chopped fresh spinach, vegetable broth, canned diced tomatoes, and lentils, and then I add in smoked salt and lots of black pepper. Had toasted bread on the side, and we were good.
I have a diner near me that has a good lentil soup, different from mine, on Wednesdays. Sometimes I get a grilled cheese with it. This doesn't work for vegans, but a vegan sandwich would.
I made lentil soup for my sick daughter yesterday. It was very filling, but it was also very thick, more like a stew.
It's basic mirepoix to start then chopped fresh spinach, vegetable broth, canned diced tomatoes, and lentils, and then I add in smoked salt and lots of black pepper. Had toasted bread on the side, and we were good.
I have a diner near me that has a good lentil soup, different from mine, on Wednesdays. Sometimes I get a grilled cheese with it. This doesn't work for vegans, but a vegan sandwich would.
I start with a basic mirepoix also, to which I add a couple of cloves of crushed garlic. Mine is pretty stew like also. Sometimes I add crushed tomatoes,but mostly I use garlic, and lemon.
I start with a basic mirepoix also, to which I add a couple of cloves of crushed garlic. Mine is pretty stew like also. Sometimes I add crushed tomatoes,but mostly I use garlic, and lemon.
I keep homemade lentil/veggie soup on hand - I can it. When I want to get really full with that as a meal, I eat a bunch of bread with it. My recent favorite, is pan pascale from Trader Joe's - it's a brown sourdough type of bread, made from sourdough starter which is just flour, water and salt. I toast the bread and eat it plain, dipped into the soup. And I eat a lot of the bread, then finish up what's left of the soup.
In my last batch of lentil/veggie soup, I put in a bunch of small chunks of sweet potato because I had a bunch of them. They made it really good, and helped it be more filling - but I will still also eat some bread with it, if I'm really hungry. I also, really like the flavor of spinach with lentils, so I often add spinach to my lentil soup.
I also sometimes add lentils to my breakfast taco mix. I have corn tortillas with a mix every morning that has basically beans/rice and veggies in it. Sometimes I add lentils into that mix, too.
As someone else mentioned, you can also cook them up, and then blend them in your blender to get a thick paste. You can add this to soups, etc., to thicken them up. Or use it as a starter for soup. Add some veggie broth or tomato juice/broth, and some veggies, etc., to make a quick soup.
By the way, they freeze great. I freeze them up in baggies with some of the lentil water from cooking them.
Sweet Potatoes are never the wrong answer. Ever. I only like lentils two ways - as soup and as a meat substitute occasionally for tacos, which are my favorite food of all time.
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