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Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup is for Soup.

Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup takes several minutes to prepare.

Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup takes 60 minutes to cook.

Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup makes 10 servings.

The ingredients for Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup are:

Ingredients:
Broth - Chicken - fat free 33% less sodium, 4 cups (or one could use vegetable to make it a vegetarian friendly dish)
8 cups of water
dry red lentils, 1.5 cup
Brown Rice, Texmati Organic, 0.5 cup
sweet potato small, peeled, cut into thin matchsticks, and then chopped
Celery, raw, 5 stalk, large (11"-12" long), diced small
1 green pepper, diced fine
Turnips, 3 medium, shredded very fine
Red Ripe Tomatoes, 6 plum tomato, diced
Brown Lentil Soup, 1 cup (this was a leftover from a visit to a Greek restaurant last week, but definitely optional)
2 bay leaves
a few dried basil leaves
salt and pepper to taste
1-2 T Kirkland Organic No Salt Seasoning blend
3-4 T dried chopped onions (easier than chopping fresh onions, but you can use fresh if you have them)
1-2 tsp Sriracha Hot chili Sauce, or to taste (I like it spicy!)
Spinach, fresh, 1.5 bunch (add this only at the final 10-15 minutes of cooking)

Here is how you make Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup:

Add water and broth to a large soup pot, over a medium-high flame. Add 1.5 cups of red lentils (I used red because it's all I had on hand) and 0.5 cup of Organic Brown Texmati rice (or rice of your choice). Give it a stir. While this is heating up, it's time to slice and dice!Let me say that I used the organic produce which I had on hand and which needed to be used up before today's delivery of fresh organic produce.As I sliced and diced and chopped each veggie, I added it to the pot, stirred, adjusted the flame so it continued on a low boil/high simmer if needed, and kept slicing and dicing and chopping and adding and stirring. The only exception was adding the spinach at the very last 10-15 minutes of cooking. Everything else went into the pot as I diced it, added in the order as listed, and I let it all simmer for a good hour before adding the spinach at the end. Part of that hour was spent slicing and dicing and adding and stirring.Also, I need to make a comment about the turnips. I don't like turnips. Never have. But we had 3 perfectly fine organic turnips in the fridge, and I thought to myself, I bet if I add them to this soup, I won't even taste them. And I was right!!! They added so much nutrition, and they couldn't even be tasted!!Makes 10 1-cup servingsNumber of Servings: 10Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KNIT1PURL2LOSE3.

The nutritional information for Super Healthy Red Lentil Soup is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 10
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 199.6

• Total Fat: 1.3 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 406.2 mg
• Total Carbs: 36.1 g
• Dietary Fiber: 8.3 g
• Protein: 13.1 g