Lentil cream soup is a great firstA dish that can please not only with a delicate taste, but also enrich the body with valuable vitamins and minerals. To prepare it is quite simple, especially when world-class cooking offers so many interesting options.
Merdzhimek Chorbasy
This Turkish lentil soup is often called the “dish of the poor.” In part, this definition is true, since it was originally submitted to ordinary rural families.
So, for its preparation will be required:a quarter of a kilo of red lentils, 1 large onion, 1 tablespoon of flour, olive and butter, about 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, dried mint, salt, paprika and pepper.
To create such a lentil soup, firstit is thoroughly washed, then it is poured with two liters of cold water, allowed to boil and left to stew until the beans are boiled soft. Then turn off the fire.
Next, fry onions in butter until translucent. Remove it and shift to lentils.
In the same pan again melt a littlebutter, but this time mixed with olive. As soon as everything is heated, add flour and with constant stirring, fry until the nut smell. At this point, pasta and spices are injected, pinch each. Boil again for two to three minutes and shift to lentils and onions, stirring well.
The final stage of cooking is chopping the soup in mashed potatoes. This is done using a blender. After which the dish is salted, decorated and served.
Lunch for the diplomat
However, these beans are loved not only in the countryside. That is why cooks of aristocracy developed a soup of red lentil, worthy of a table of courtiers and diplomats.
So, to cook it, you will need:a quarter of a kilogram of lentils, large tomatoes and onions (1 each), 1 red Bulgarian pepper, various smoked meats, red ground hot pepper and salt, olive oil.
The very process of creation is as follows.way: in a pan with olive oil fry all the vegetables, cut into any shape. As soon as they get a golden hue, add lentils to them and stew with the addition of a small amount of water until it becomes soft. Then pour the mixture into the pan, pour it with a liter of water and boil for fifteen minutes.
Soup is removed from heat, allowed to cool slightly,ground by blender. But in order for him to acquire the true aristocracy, the smoked meat is cut into thin strips, put into a plate and poured with the obtained mashed soup.
Greetings from Naples
But on the Italian “boot” this first dish is somewhat different both in the list of products and in the way of cooking.
So, Neapolitan-style lentil soup will require: two hundred grams of lentils, one each of onion, celery root and carrots, pasta - about 50 grams and cream, sunflower oil - 1 tbsp.
All vegetables should be washed well and folded inpan, pour them with two glasses of water. Boil the future broth is necessary until complete readiness of lentils, which means about two hours. After that, it is necessary to remove onions, celery and carrots, cool a little and chop with a blender or rub through a sieve.
Beforehand should be prepared to half-cooked pasta. She, along with three tablespoons of cream and butter should be added to the soup of lentils. After that, all the salt and serve.
These are simple, but at the same time delicious cooking options for the "dishes of the poor."