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Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup takes 45 minutes to prepare.

Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup takes 60 minutes to cook.

Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup makes 10 servings.

The ingredients for Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup are:

2½ cups chicken or vegetable broth
1½ cups water
¾ cup lentils, picked over and rinsed
½ cup brown rice
15-ounce can diced tomatoes with juice
2 Italian sausages, cooked, quartered lengwise, and sliced
3 carrots, halved lengthwise and sliced crosswise
½ onion, chopped
1 stalk of celery, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ tsp dried basil(
½ tsp dried oregano
½ tsp dried thyme
1 bay leaf
2 tb vinegar, or to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
2½ cups more water

Here is how you make Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup:

In a heavy kettle combine the broth, 1½ cups water, the lentils, the rice, the tomatoes with juice, the sausages, the carrots, the onion, the celery, the garlic, the basil, the oregano, the thyme, and the bay leaf. Bring the liquid to a boil and simmer the mixture, covered, stirring occasionally, for 45 to 55 minutes, or until the lentils and rice are tender. Stir in the vinegar and salt and pepper to taste and discard the bay leaf. The soup will be thick and will thicken as it stands. Thin the soup with additional 2½ cups water.Makes about 10 1-cup servings.Adapted from Gourmet January 1991Number of Servings: 10Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CHRISTINEDC.

The nutritional information for Lentil, Brown Rice, and Sausage Soup is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 10
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 93.9

• Total Fat: 2.4 g
• Cholesterol: 10.6 mg
• Sodium: 579.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 10.8 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.6 g
• Protein: 8.0 g