Calories: Not specified
Time for preparing: 70 min
Lentils have been undeservedly forgotten for a long time, but recently they have been increasingly appearing on store shelves and on our table. Mostly red and green varieties of lentils are on sale. Green soup is excellent in both nutrition and taste. It can be cooked both on vegetable or on water. In any case, the dish turns out to be rich and unusually tasty. In this recipe, we will consider the option of making soup without the use of meat, i.e. boil it in water. It is suitable for fasting, as well as for vegetarians.
Lentils can be pre-soaked for a couple of hours in cold water, but this is for lovers of boiled grains. I pour dry, and it turns out very tender, but whole.
Green lentil soup in a slow cooker - recipe with photo.
Products needed for cooking:
- lentils - 1 cup,
- potatoes - 3 pieces,
- carrots - 1 piece,
- onion - 1 piece,
- Bell pepper- 1 piece,
- Bay leaf, spices, salt - to taste,
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons,
- water - no more than 2/3 of the volume of the bowl of your multicooker.
Recipe with photo step by step:
Rinse lentils for soup in cold water without soaking. All vegetables are washed. We clean the onions, carrots and potatoes.
Tomatoes are peeled, bell pepper- from seeds. Cut potatoes, peppers and tomatoes into cubes. Carrots and onions - in smaller pieces (or grate). 
We turn on the multicooker in the "meat" mode and pour vegetable oil into the bowl. When it warms up, pour the chopped vegetables for frying: onions, carrots, peppers and tomatoes. At this stage, for those who decide to cook meat soup, you first need to add the meat cut into pieces, and the vegetables when the meat “grabs” and brightens. Don't close the lid yet! We also add spices here - I took dry parsley and dill, a little ground black pepper and salt. 
Lightly fry everything until soft (some like until golden brown- this is also possible), pour lentils and potatoes on top. 
Put a bay leaf on top, carefully pour hot water and close the multicooker with a lid. 
Next, the "meat" mode must be turned off and the multicooker must be switched to the "soup" mode. 
The valve on the lid must be closed. We are waiting for the end of the program, letting off steam or waiting for the pan to cool down by itself, and our dish is well infused. So it’s ready in a slow cooker, rich, thick, fragrant soup from green lentils! 
For gourmets, I’ll add on my own that if you add a thinly sliced celery stalk and a spoonful of sour cream to the plate, then one serving will definitely not do! Enjoy your meal!
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Let's make red lentil curry soup in the Polaris slow cooker. Lentils are legumes and are related to peas, beans and mung beans.
Lentils are rich in vitamins and minerals needed by the body. Especially it has a lot of vegetable protein, so it can be replaced with meat on fasting days. For the same reason, it is recommended to include it in a vegetarian menu.
Lentils come in green, brown, red and black. All its varieties differ not only in color, but also in taste, as well as in the duration of cooking. Brown or green lentils take a long time to cook, so they must be soaked for several hours before use. But red lentils will cook in 25-30 minutes. And it doesn't require soaking. Therefore, it is she who is chosen for cooking soups, mashed potatoes and cereals.
Lentil soup-puree is similar in texture to pea soup, but its taste is more noble. Smell boiled lentils not as sharp as peas. On the contrary, to add spice to lentil soups, various seasonings are added. Spices such as saffron, turmeric, curry are especially well combined with red lentils. They give food refined taste and appetizing aroma, and also make the soup brighter.
Lentils for puree soup are cooked in a small amount water. AT regular saucepan lentils can burn, so it is advisable to cook puree soup in a slow cooker.
If you choose a slow cooker for making red lentil soup and accurately measure all the ingredients you need for the dish, you will end up with a very tasty and fragrant soup.
red lentil curry soup recipe
Dish: Main course
Preparation time: 30 minutes.
Time for preparing: 45 min.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 900 ml water
- 170 g red lentils
- 180 g onion
- 130 g carrots
- 35 ml vegetable oil
- 1/4 tsp curry
- 5 g paprika
- Red pepper
- salt
- dill greens
- crackers
Step by step recipe with photo
How to cook red lentil soup in a slow cooker
Peel onions and carrots, rinse cold water. Cut the onion into wide slices, and the carrot into circles.
Sort the red lentils, rinse in several waters before dipping into the multicooker bowl. Drain the water.
In frying mode, heat oil in a bowl. Dip the onions and carrots into the bowl. Stir.
Saute the vegetables with the lid closed for 13-15 minutes until the onion is lightly browned.
Throw in the lentils.
Pour the contents of the bowl hot water.
Install the Soup program. Boil lentils for 20 minutes.
Salt, sprinkle with pepper and paprika.
Simmer the soup for another 10 minutes. During this time, the lentils, onions and carrots will become soft.
Turn off the multicooker. Using oven mitts, remove the bowl, and transfer its contents to a colander set on the pan.
After a thick mass, transfer to a bowl.
Blend with an immersion blender to a smooth puree.
Immediately transfer the puree to the mixing bowl.
While stirring the mass with a spatula, pour in the broth in portions.
Add curry, stir.
Close the lid. Select the "Soup" mode, bring the contents of the pan to a boil, but do not boil.
Pour red lentil soup into a bowl, sprinkle with dill. Before use, put crackers.
Enjoy your meal!
Lentil soup - tasty and useful first a dish that is quite easy to cook in a slow cooker. With one of the recipes for making lentil soup in a slow cooker, I will now introduce you.
For some reason, lentils are not very popular in our country. Many housewives bypass it, preferring to cook soups and cereals from peas, beans and other legumes. And in vain! After all, lentils are in no way inferior to them in their useful properties, and in many ways even surpass them. And at the same time, it is much easier and faster to prepare!
Dishes from it can be cooked with or without meat. Then the meals turn out to be lean, and it is quite possible to eat them even for strict vegetarians, for whom legumes, and lentils in particular, are the most valuable source of protein.
It is especially easy and simple to cook cereals and lentil soups in a slow cooker. It is during the preparation of these dishes that we can fully experience the wonderful principle of our miracle saucepan: “put it and forget it”. We do not have to worry about the fact that the soup will run away and flood the stove, the slow cooker simply will not allow such incidents!
And it turns out that lentil soup is very tasty and at the same time cooks much faster than pea soup. Serving on the table, you can generously sprinkle it with fresh herbs, it is also good with crackers. Try it, you won't regret it!
- Onion - 1 piece
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Potato - 5 tubers
- Green lentils - 1 multi glass
- Beef - 400 grams
- Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - 1 tablespoon
- Water - 2 liters
- Greens for serving
At the preparatory stage of preparing lentil soup, we will clean the vegetables: potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic. Cut the onion and carrot into cubes, chop the garlic finely.
We measure the lentils into a deep bowl and rinse it until clear water. I did not soak the lentils, in a slow cooker they boil well.
We take a chilled piece of meat, I took beef and wash it. Dry it and cut it into cubes.
We turn on the frying mode, you can replace it with the baking or multi-cook mode. Pour sunflower oil into a slow cooker, put onions and carrots and fry until golden brown under a closed lid.
Then spread the chopped meat, mix and fry for about 15 more minutes. You can cook with the lid open or closed. Add spices, I added Provence herbs. 
Pour the chopped potatoes, washed lentils into the bowl. Add salt. 
Fill with hot water, about 2 liters, but not more than the upper mark. We close the lid. 
We turn on the soup program for 1.5 hours. Can be replaced with a 2 hour extinguishing program. We press start. 
We let the soup brew under a closed lid for another half an hour and you can pour it into plates and enjoy. Enjoy your meal! 
If you still have questions, I suggest watching the video recipe for making soup with green lentils in meat broth.
For the base of the soup, give preference to broths cooked from meat on the bone, it can be pork ribs, a soup set made from pork, beef or chicken.
First of all, weld the base - meat broth. For example, from pork ribs. There were 22 small ones per 1 kg, i.e. short, rib.
Set the "Soup 1.5 hours" or "Stew 1.5-2 hours" mode. Rinse the ribs and immediately cut into portions. Place them in a bowl of hot or boiled water, remove the scale with a spoon or a special napkin. Lightly salt the water, add bay leaf and fragrant and / or hot peppers peas to taste.
Add vegetables after about an hour. Peel the onion and chop finely. Wash the carrots, peel them, finely chop them into strips or grate coarsely. Wash the potatoes, peel, cut into large cubes or sticks. Before throwing into the broth, keep the potatoes in cold, slightly salted water.
In such a rich meat broth on the bone, it is better to add onions and carrots in their natural raw form, and not fry them. If you are used to preparing vegetables before putting them in soup, then try not to fry onions and carrots until golden brown, but just copy them to vegetable oil in a skillet over low heat.
Choose spices for the soup. For lentil soup, a variety are suitable. I want to recommend ready mixes: curry, Provencal herbs or Italian herbs with or without paprika. Any of these mixtures wonderfully transforms the soup, and changing them, each time your lentil soup will sound different. It is believed that lentils go well with mushrooms and, if you are a fan mushroom flavor, then take note of the option of adding a powder of their dried forest mushrooms.
Throw in the lentils after the vegetables. It needs to be inspected, removed low-quality peas and washed. For different types Lentils have their own cooking time, so look at the recommendations written on the package, or focus on the next time. It takes 30-40 minutes to cook green lentils, 20-30 minutes for brown lentils, 20-25 minutes for red lentils, and 15-20 minutes for orange lentils. In these cases, the lentil beans will remain almost whole, and if you want the lentils to boil soft and thicken the soup, then cook longer.
Your favorite electric saucepan should not stand idle, especially with such an abundance of products in our retail chains. Let's cook tasty soup from lentils with meat or chicken in a slow cooker, taking into account in the recipes the features of its different types - red, black and others. The spicy unobtrusive taste of this legume is worthy of the most gourmet cuisine, a beneficial features inspire you to include it in your daily menu.
Culinary processing of lentils is not as long in time as, for example, beans or peas. That is why we can cook lentil meat soup quickly, without pre-soaking the bean product.
Five culinary secrets of lentils
Secret I
There is a slight difference in the time it takes for lentil beans to boil until tender. Depending on the species, they become soft during this time:
- Red beans - boiled in 15-20 minutes in mashed potatoes.
- Green - about 40 minutes.
- Brown - 20-25 minutes.
- Yellow - about 20 minutes to puree.
- Black beans "beluga" - 20 minutes.
Based on this information, you can confidently focus on the heat treatment of the most time-consuming ingredient.
Secret II
In addition to time, we also take into account the proportions of water and grains - for the ideal thickness of the soup, we take 1 glass of beans and 2 liters of water.
Secret III
Lentil beans should be salted only at the final stage of cooking - then they will give the dish all its flavor and aroma.
Secret IV
The product is poured only with boiling water, not cold. Then the grains are quickly boiled and retain their useful substances as much as possible.
Secret V
In order for the product to boil well, pour 1 tbsp into the water. olive or any vegetable oil.
So, let's look at a few recipes for lentil soups for a slow cooker and share with you a few secrets on how to cook not just a soup, but a dish worthy of serving on a royal table!
Ingredients
Calculation for 2 liters of water
- - 400 g + -
- - 1 cup (250 ml) + -
- — 1 PC. medium size + -
- - 1-2 tablespoons + -
- — 1 small onion + -
- — 0.5 tsp or to taste + -
- — 3 medium tubers + -
- ground coriander- pinch + -
- Ground paprika - 0.5 tsp + -
- - 1 PC. + -
- Allspice - 4 peas + -
- - for decoration on a plate + -
Cooking
For meat soup with lentils, which we will cook in a slow cooker, we will take veal or beef, and we chose yellow lentils because of their ability to boil to a puree state.
- Cut the meat into small pieces, sprinkle with paprika and salt and leave to marinate for 30 minutes.
- Wash the lentil beans. We free the onion from the husk and cut into cubes. Rub the peeled carrots on a grater with large chips.
- Pour vegetable (if available, olive is better) oil into the bowl of the multicooker, put it on the bottom cold cuts, mix, close and fry in baking mode for 15 minutes.
- Add onions and carrots to the meat roast and fry in the same mode for another 15 minutes.
- After frying, we try the readiness of the veal - if it is already soft, then we put yellow lentils into the bowl. If not, then pour half a glass of boiling water into the meat, change the mode to “stewing” and cook the veal with vegetables for another 20 minutes.
- My potato tubers, peel and cut into cubes. Open the bowl of the multicooker, put potato cubes and lentil grains into it and pour 2 liters of boiling water. We program "Extinguishing" for 35 minutes.
- After 35 minutes, put bay leaves, peppercorns, a pinch of coriander and salt into the soup. We continue to cook in the same mode for another 15 minutes.
- Turn off the slow cooker and let the yellow lentil soup with meat brew for at least 20 minutes.
We serve our fragrant masterpiece in deep plates, sprinkled with chopped parsley along the edges or center.
Chicken soup "Egyptian"
Red lentils are also called Egyptian. So our red lentil soup can be called "Egyptian".
By voicing the name of the soup, you will only increase the interest of consumers in this healthy dish. Success is guaranteed to you as a cook! But keep in mind that the red look boils and turns into a puree very quickly.
Based on 1.5 liters of water, we need the following food set:
- 2 chicken fillets,
- 1 cup red lentils
- 2 potatoes
- carrot,
- 3 medium sized tomatoes
- Spices: bay leaf, 2 cloves of garlic, black and allspice peas, paprika, salt.
- For frying, we use sunflower oil - a couple of tablespoons.
Cooking
- Chicken fillet cut into small pieces.
- Peel and chop onions and carrots: onions - in cubes, carrots - on a coarse grater.
- We cut the tomatoes crosswise, dip them in boiling water for a minute and remove the skin. We cut into cubes.
- Pour oil into the bowl of the multicooker and cook meat roast from chicken, onions, tomatoes and carrots for 15 minutes in the "Baking" mode.
- While the chicken with vegetables is fried, we wash the red grains in several waters, cut the potatoes into cubes. Pass the garlic through a press.
- We put potatoes, lentils, spices (except garlic) in a bowl, salt and pour boiling water. We cook on the “Extinguishing” function of the device for 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, enrich the dish with garlic and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
- Let the red lentil soup with chicken "rest" and brew. Serve on the table, sprinkling each serving with finely chopped favorite herbs.
Ideas for Lentil Soup Recipes
Our multicooker helper will help to realize any of our ideas! Let's unleash our culinary potential and do some magic - lentil beans are such a versatile food! They go great with meat, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits, and even seafood!
- If you have a good immersion blender, then you can make the most delicate vegetarian puree soup in seconds! If there is no meat in the recipe, of course!
- Not a single lentil soup will lose if at the end of cooking you add grated hard cheese! Firstly, you will get a beautiful milky color, and secondly, add the most delicate sourness to your taste!
- Lentil beans can be used to make cold soups and borscht. For their preparation, it is better to take a green or brown lentil type.
- Fast-cooking yellow and red lentils are very good for making dessert soups. Dried apricots, raisins, pumpkin, lemon juice and zest.
- This type of legume is very fond of spices. Make up your favorite spice mix and pair with lentils! Don't guess!
Experiment! Cooking can be that outlet that will allow you to plunge into a completely different world - the world of tastes, aromas and creativity. With a multicooker in the kitchen, nothing is impossible! Lentil soup with or without meat is proof of this!
