Brown Lentil Soup Recipe

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Brown Lentil Soup

Brown Lentil with fennel root soup

Brown Lentil Soup

Ingredients:

1 500g brown lentils (drained for 1 hour)
9 cups water
½ cup olive oil
2 large onions, sliced
2 Tsp sea-salt
1 Tsp ground black pepper
1 fennel root, minced

Method:

Cook lentils with 3 cups water for 20 minutes, then turn off fire, filter lentils and keep the cooking water in a separate dish.
Fry onions in a big pot until they get brownish, then add lentils and cook for 5 minutes.
Add cooking water, and 5 more cups water and bring soup to boiling point.
Add the other ingredients (not fennel yet), and cook on low fire for 45 minutes.
Turn off fire, and add fennel.