TURKISH STYLE LENTIL SOUP (Soups)

Member Name: eylem26

Product:	Soups
Date:	10/02/08 (289 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to prepare

Disadvantages: very tasty

This is a turkish style lentil soup, I make this soup for years and I love it , you can try the taste in any turkish retaurant in green lanes.
Ingridients
red Lentil , please buy them from turkish shop , its better cooked.
one carrot
one small potato
one small onion
small piece of chicken breast with out the bone
6 table spoon of tomatoe paste, greek or turkish one
some turkish red chillie seasonning
mint seasonning
pepper seasonning
two table spoon of frying oil
salt
a deep pan
blender , the thin long one that you can move around inside the pan.


How to prepare
firstly go through the red lentil, to pick up small stones and not red lentil, while its dried.

then peeal the onion, peal the potato, peal the carrot.
add some red lentil , depending how big the pan is , fill it up with cold water, leave a one inch gap .

add the onion as it is and potatoand carrot , small chicken side breast. boil it untill the lentil turns yellow and the onion, potato, side breast, carrot gone soft and cooked well.
once all cooked , take your blender and move it inside the pan till the onion, potato,side breast,carrot disolve, and you can no longer see large pieces of above. Then carry on cooking it.

THE SAUCE
take a separet , flat surfaced pan, add the tomatoe paste, peper seasonning, mint seasonning, turkish chilli seasonning, and some salt, also add the oil, now cook it till all blends together.
once finished add the micture to the lentil soup and mix it very well. cook it for another 5 minutes and serve .
make sure you dont do too much of the sauce, I normally cook food by looking at it and tasting it , I judge how much to put inside by looking at it . the trick is to make sure when you are putting the water , you leave a few gap , leaving the top of the pan alittle empty . This will give you a space to blend and while blending it , you wont have lentils poping out.

Hope you will enjoy it .
But make sure you taste it in a turkish restaurant , then you will have an idea of the taste and when you are cooking it you will try and get the same taste then you wont go wrong.
But if you just want to try it from my recepie , I am sure you will do well.

Kids Love this Lentil soup
somethign else I forgot to mention is that when cooking it before adding the sauce , if there is a foam formed on top, remove it .

make sure the soup is not too thick, or too watery. and when serving mix it before you inserting inside a bowl or plate.

Summary: turkish style lentil soup is great when you have the flue