red lentil soup

Fall is coming! Cozy sweaters, boots, fires, cuddles. I love fall.

 

If you live in Michigan like me, we've had our fair share of fall weather this "summer". The temperature literally can range from 46 - 96 degrees. Insanity.

 

This recipe here is a perfect chilly weather recipe and it's REALLY good, like really (if you couldn't tell by the CAPS).

 

I found it on Pinterest and we adapted it from a crockpot recipe because I only use the crockpot when I am going to be home all day, and that's pretty much only on the weekends, maybe... The crockpot recipe can be found at kalynskitchen.com. Below is "our" recipe. Some of the spices were changed a bit for what we had on hand and obviously ours cooked on the stove instead of the crockpot.

 

It's real simple & real good.

Red Lentil Soup

 

 

Ingredients:
1 diced yellow onion
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp minced garlic
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp salt
fresh ground black pepper
1 cup red lentils
2 cans rinsed chickpeas
3 - 4 diced tomatoes
5 cups vegetable stock (more if soup becomes to think)

 

Heat olive oil and sauté diced onion in pot until soft. Add spices (garlic, cumin,

thyme, turmeric, salt, pepper) and sauté until fragrant. Add vegetable stock, red

lentils and chickpeas to pot until lentils start to soften. Add in diced tomatoes

and continue to cook until lentils and chickpeas are soft.