Great soup Made this soup during a blizzard and substituted broccoli since we had no cauliflower; also left out dried coriander since we didn't have that. Very easy very tasty. My kids liked it (though my teenager thought it needed more spice ). A great addition to my regular rotation of dinners. Pros: easy delicious Cons: more spice
I did not make any changes to the recipe - it is very good but i agree it could be a bit more flavorful; however i had one major problem. The lentils did not cook properly! i just couldn't figure it out; i've eaten lentils a bunch as a child not so much of late. After the failure i googled that either the lentils were old... or there could be a problem cooking them with the acidic tomatos. Anyway i then cooked up a separate batch of lentils (alone); dished out lentils into my bowl and added the soup on top -- MUCH better and I managed to save the large pot of soup! I didn't read all the review but curious if anyone else had problem with the lentils cooking in the crockpot?
This recipe is INCREDIBLE! The most delicious soup I have made yet! I am planning on making this at least once a month probably more times than that. I made some changes to the recipe so the texture was more curried than soup-y but it had incredible flavors. Here's what I did: 1 cups minced carrots 4 cloves garlic minced 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground turmeric teaspoon ground cinnamon teaspoon ground pepper 3 cups reduced-sodium vegetable stock 1.5 cups water 1.5 cups minced cauliflower 1 cups lentils 14-ounce (0.5 can) diced tomatoes 1 tablespoons tomato paste 2 cups minced fresh spinach I put everything in my crock pot for 9.5 hours and served. Before serving I minced 1 bunch minced fresh cilantro to store and keep for later servings and mixed in a spoonful of it to mix in with my bowl. I also added some lemon juice to taste right before eating. It was heavenly. I put basically everything in my mini food processor and it really worked for this recipe. I loved loved loved it. Thank you Joyce!
After reading a few reviews I soaked the lentils left out the water used fresh tomatoes w/juice. I first made half batch it was excellent.I had a bowl froze the remainder. Second batch I added Aleppo chile pepper and Ikea frozen veggie balls. I invited neighbors for lunch. With a lite green salad and garlic toast. They gave this soup...10 stars!!!!! Yes I will make it again!Thanx for sharing!raf
I really wanted to like this soup...it looked delicious and smelled wonderful as it was cooking. But it was just meh.... Before cooking I re read the ingredients several times and thought it strange that salt was not listed so I did add it. It didn't help....I won't make it again. However if you decide to give it a go make sure to cook the lentils ahead of time.
Very Yummy Had all the ingredients on hand so whipped this up yesterday. did stove top not crock pot. Really good and will be making again. Pros: easy fast healthy
I followed this recipe as published but the end result was rather disappointing. I think you should remove this one from your site. I won't make this one again.
Used red lentils. Also added a touch of cayenne and a half t smoked paprika. Only had one can of diced tomatoes and used a spoon of organic ketchup to add color since I didn't have tomato paste. Did it stove top since my crock pot was too small. Simmered covered two hours. The spinach rocks! Needs some salt in the bowl. I believe the flavor will improve overnight.
Bland Bitter Vegetable Soup I love Eating Well recipes and I really wanted to like this soup. I love lentils turmeric & cumin and all the vegetables in this recipe...but this just wound up very bland and even a litle bitter. It was almost inedible. Maybe it was lacking salt? I doctored it up with some salt pepper and curry powder and so our leftovers are at least edible now! Pros: Healthy Cons: Bland
