Yaakov's red lentil soup...

watergirl ↓

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:17 pm

ruby slippers wrote:

Anyone have a recipe for me. : ).

Dice onions, celery, and carrots. Sauté. Add chicken broth, the lentils, and a tomato product - I use a can of diced tomatos and tomato sauce (not marinara for this). Add water or chicken broth, bring to boil, lower to simmer, and simmer for a long time until the lentils are "melted", ie have softened to the point where they've lost their shape and are pretty much a mush).

ETA - use the red ones that are really more orange.

Last edited by watergirl on Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:35 pm; edited 1 time in total

↑ ruby slippers

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:20 pm

watergirl wrote:

Thank you!!!

↑ watergirl

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:22 pm

ruby slippers wrote:

Thank you!!!

I've been making this for years, a few times a year and it's always a hit. With warm sourdough - so good!

keym

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:31 pm

I use the orange lentils. It gives an even oranger red color.
Especially if you're making it for kids, they appreciate it

Chayalle

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:34 pm

If you don't have chicken broth, just put in a piece of chicken. When the soup is done, remove the chicken, take it off the bone, and put the shredded chicken back into the soup. Yum!

Iymnok

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:42 pm

I just added red lentils to my regular vegetable soup.
I used onions, carrots, celery and zucchini. Diced, covered with water.
Add some salt.
I added 1/2cup lentils. I could have easily doubled that.
When you cook them they turn yellow. Eisav ate them raw.

honey36

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 2:44 pm

Don't the red (orange) lentils dissolve when cooked?

I use the recipe from the bais Yaakov cookbook. It's not really red but everyone here likes it. It uses brown lentils which don't dissolve and are still recognizable when cooked, so at least we have that What

giftedmom

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 3:28 pm

So helpful! Ds is getting red lentils from his rebbe for good behavior and wanted me to put it in the cholent but I don’t know how it’ll affect the taste so I promised him I’ll make a soup which he likely won’t eat!

ps1

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 3:56 pm

This soup is awesome - super simple, fast, everyone loves it. One of my dinner staples (note: I skip the Aleppo pepper and the garnish)
https://www.themediterraneandi.....soup/
The red lentils and tomato paste give it the color

shanie5

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 8:52 pm

giftedmom wrote:

I put green lentils in my chulent all the time. I've used red ones too. It's fine! No one even knows and I make a good chulent.

relaxation

Wed, Nov 27 2024, 11:39 pm

I actually one time was taught that lentils even red ones become black after cooking so then why did esav say red ?
The answer is that he came in starving and the lentils were still cooking and the word Nuh can also mean raw (as said by the korban pesach) and esav said pour it down my mouth even if its raw

Elfrida

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 3:03 am

relaxation wrote:

That's a well known midrash, but unless chazal were talking about a variety of lentil we don't have nowadays, the facts are wrong.

What we call red lentils are an orange colour, and they retain that colour when cooked. They tend to dissolve, giving a general orangey colour to the food.

Moonlight

Today at 8:32 pm

ps1 wrote:

Made this, was absolutely delicious!

naomi2

Today at 8:42 pm

I was think about the because the lentils are orange when raw and grey when cooked. Maybe he used beets to give it red color