Sweet Lentil Soup with Asparagus Tips

Name: Sweet Lentil Soup with Asparagus Tips
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters asparagus tips; 64 fluid ounces (32 fluid ounce) containers chicken broth; 2 Tbsps curry powder; 0 teaspoons dried basil; 1 medium head garlic; 8 servings ground black pepper to taste; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 591 milliliters dry lentils; 3 Tbsps olive oil; 1 large onion, grated; 2 Tbsps orange marmalade; 237 milliliters sweet peas; 1 red bell pepper; 1 pinch saffron; 59 milliliters white sugar

Sweet Lentil Soup with Asparagus Tips is a gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This main course has 345 calories, 19g of protein, and 7g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 27% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of kosher salt, onion, bell pepper, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the white sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Autumn. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).

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Oven

Cut the top off of the head of garlic and place in a shallow dish in 1 inch of water.

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Garlic

Water

Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil, sprinkle with basil, cover and place on a baking sheet. Halve and seed the bell pepper, drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and place on the baking sheet.

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Bell Pepper

Olive Oil

Basil

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Baking Sheet

Bake garlic and pepper in preheated oven until pepper is browned and garlic is soft, 20 to 40 minutes.

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Garlic

Pepper

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Oven

Remove from oven and, when cool enough to handle, remove skin from pepper and chop. Squeeze out garlic cloves and mash together in a bowl to form a paste.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Pepper

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Bowl

Oven

While garlic and pepper are baking, combine lentils and chicken broth in a large pot over medium heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 40 minutes, until lentils are just tender.

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Chicken Broth

Lentils

Garlic

Pepper

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Pot

Stir garlic paste, bell pepper, carrots, onion, asparagus, peas into lentil mixture, adding more broth to thin if necessary. Season with sugar, marmalade, curry powder, saffron, salt and pepper. Simmer 30 minutes more, until vegetables are tender and flavors are well blended.

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Salt And Pepper