April 9, 2008: Creamy Cerise Lentil Chowder

I'm actually pushing the soup agenda lately - I guess I've missed it during the warmer months. This lentil chowder was a rich too filling mush, alongside actually potent flavours - a picayune spiciness, approximately tangy vinegar too the earthy lentils. I loved it on the black nosotros made it, but past times the fourth dimension we'd gotten through the leftovers the vinegary-lemon flavours had larn a fighting tiresome. I'm certain the whole parcel would lead maintain been improved if we'd used a delicious homemade stock every bit the recipe recommended, instead of store-bought salty stock. In futurity it mightiness hold out best to snuff it far inwards smaller batches (or for larger crowds).

Creamy blood-red lentil chowder

1 tblsp olive oil
1 pocket-size onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 celery rib, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bay leaf
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried basil
1 cinnamon stalk
1 large tomato, diced
1.5 cups blood-red lentils
5 cups of vegetable stock
1 loving cup dry out white wine
170g silken tofu
1 tblsp miso
2 tblsp lemon juice
1 tblsp cider vinegar
Splash of hot sauce
Salt too pepper to taste

In a large pot, rut the stone oil too hence throw inwards the onion, cooking for iii or iv minutes. Add inwards the carrot too celery too laid upward for approximately other few minutes. Once the vegies lead maintain softened, add together the bay leaf, garlic, basil, oregano too cinnamon stick. Saute for approximately other pair of minutes.

Add the tomato plant too laid upward for approximately other infinitesimal or so, stir inwards the lentils, stock too wine. Cover too convey to the boil, hence simmer for xx minutes or so, until the lentils are soft. If you lot tin notice them, lead maintain out the cinnamon stick too the bay leaf.

Put the tofu, miso too two cups of the soup mix inwards a nutrient processor too whiz until good blended. Pour the mush dorsum into the soup pot too stir it all through. Add the lemon juice, vinegar too hot sauce. Season alongside tabular array salt too pepper.