Winter Lentil Soup

I made this stew Sunday night to have for lunches at work this week. This is my new favorite veggie soup. I used vegetable broth in place of water and as another reviewer suggested, added the tomato juice from the can of tomatoes when I added the other liquid. I omitted the parmesan. I usually just sort of throw stuff together when making soup, from now on I will be making this one!

The lentils in this recipe never cooked. 4 hours later, and my lentils are still completely raw. All the vegetables have turned to smoosh. Cook lentils separate and add them in, otherwise you get little rocks and a bunch of wasted ingredients. I am incredibly frustrated. I've never had lentils just not cook before.

I surprised my wife with this, who's very picky... She loved it (without the parmesan cheese)... Flawless Victory! and Thank you!!

Made this on yet another snowy afternoon. it was really good. seems to be a pretty flexible / forgiving recipe. added 1/4 C lentils, and another half cup of grains (some barley, kamut and wheat berries) put in more water to off set the additional needed for the extra grains. also added 2T of tomato paste. it was fabulous. next time will add more kale, maybe some chickpeas or corn and garlic, only cause I love it, not because the soup needed it.

Here's what I did with this recipe: used 2 large leeks and 2 -14 oz cans of diced tomatoes, undrained (why break up whole tomatoes when you can get them diced?). To the leeks cooking I added 2 small diced carrots and 1 large rib diced celery. Then I added 2 large cloves diced garlic about 2 mins before adding the tomatoes. Substituted one can no sodium chicken broth for 2 cups water. Followed all the rest of the recipe aside from that. Soup came out more brothy than I like so I puréed about 2/3 to 1/2 of the soup. I like a hearty consistency. Pretty happy with my modifications....hearty and very tasty with just enough chunkiness.

I made this soup last night, my husband and I LOVED it! I was worried that he may not like it since it didn't have any meat in it, but he said, "This soup is fantastic!". I used green lentils because that's all I could find at the grocery store and I didn't drain the tomatoes. I will be making this very often. Thank you so much for sharing!

Yumm in my tummm. Next time I make this I'm not going to drain the tomatoes though. That's only personal preference cause I love tomatoes. This soup was great, never made homemade soup before. Definitely going to get into it though. First time a soup hit the spot for me and didn't have me going back for 3 more bulls (I would go back for six bowls judging flavour but my stomach would probably explode). Wasn't loaded with enough salt to put me into cardiac arrest and still had TONS of flava. That's what I like in a soup!

I just made this soup. Yum Yum! I added two cloves of minced garlic along with the Leeks. I also put in some hot pepper flakes, 1 cup of lentils (just from reading the other reviews) as well as a couple of tablespoons of Balsamic vinegar. I really wish the ingredient measurements were given in weight or volume instead of by quantity, the leeks are so big I ended up just using one. Also how much each serving size is. This defiantly will be put into our rotation.

Meant to give this five stars, love this soup! It is great just the way it is, but next time, I will add more lentils and add kale half-way through cooking.

This is mine and my husband's favorite soup! I have substituted onions for leeks in a pinch and it didn't make a noticeable difference.

Loved this soup! Cooked for about an hour though. Added 3 tomatoes, 1 carrot & 2 celery stalks all diced, as well as using the juice from the canned tomatoes and an all natural powdered chicken stock in the 6 cups of water. Added baby spinach at the end of cooking as didn't have any Kale.

I left out the kale, and added more lentils. I substituted canned potatoes and carrots for the sweet potatoes (just wanted to try something a little more convenient). And also, I used half vegetable broth and carrot juice, and half water. And only two leeks.

Lentils _are_ the source of protein. Very high in protein, most vegetarians and vegans get their protein from legumes and beans like lentils!

Made it AGAIN last night and was reminded once more how great this soup/stew tastes. If you are striving to meet the seven-a-day veggie/fruit goal, this helps the cause! We topped it off w/ Asiago cheese.....shredded, not grated, and this added an extra zing. Thank you for providing this recipe.

Haven't tried this yet but if I do, I'll saute the kale separately and add some to the bowls of soup. If there's soup left over, I'll store remaining greens separately and add into the warmed-over portions. This way, they stay green and tender (instead of turning greyish and limp.)

i really liked this soup! i used some stock instead of water, diced tomatoes with juice and added some paste so it was very sweet and delicious.

Just made this soup and am very happy with it. It could really benefit from the addition of a protein, so I may add chicken sausage to it before serving. I do not like sweet potatoes so I used diced fingerling potatoes instead. It's a pretty soup and very tasty.

I made this soup today subbing cabbage for the kale. I also used a 28-ounce can of diced tomatoes, instead of whole, and I included the liquid from the tomatoes in the pot. I used two medium-sized yams and didn't find it too sweet at all. Next time, I might add some chicken sausage in the beginning to make it even a little heartier. The flavor is amazing!

This soup was great - flavorful, filling and hearty. I added a few sweet italian sausages at the beginning (browned them before the leeks) and used half chicken stock and half water for the liquid. Loved that it was full of veggies - will definitely be making this again!

Hearty!

This is a very warm, colorful soup. I liked it because it was simple to make substitutions for preference without compromising the overall result. I didn't use very many tomatoes, and I think in the future I'll use less sweet potato and maybe use a small regular potato to supplement that. I agree with the commenter that said it was a little too sweet. But that can be easily remedied. Overall, a nice, simple recipe.

I really like this recipe, but the sweet potatoes made the soup just a tad too sweet. Maybe I used one that was too large, but I would recommend using one sweet potato and one regular potato.

This is a great recipe!- a wonderful winter stew. I added double the lentils, the reserved tomato juice, and a small bit of cayenne. Will certainly be making it again!