Vegan Lentil Soup with Spinach

Vegan Lentil Soup with Spinach has a great deal of taste from the tomatoes, cumin, and different spices and this soup can be gluten-free.

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All winter I’ve been cooking and re-photographing a few of my favourite soups from the previous and now I’m feeling like I must get them posted! My love of lentils is properly documented on the weblog, and this Vegan Lentil Soup with Spinach is constituted of easy pantry components, nevertheless it’s loaded with taste because of the cumin seeds, floor coriander, onions, garlic, and paprika that taste the soup. 

I added further taste to the soup through the use of vegetable inventory instead of water. The soup has a robust cumin taste, which was one of many issues I liked, and it was the proper method to make use of up the final little bit of a type of big tubs of spinach from Costco. For those who like lentils and spinach I hope you’ll give it a strive!

What components do you want?

• Olive Oil (affiliate hyperlink)
• entire cumin seeds (affiliate hyperlink)
• onion
• Minced Garlic (affiliate hyperlink)
• floor coriander (affiliate hyperlink)
• contemporary floor black pepper to style
• paprika
• brown lentils
• canned vegetable broth
• canned petite diced tomatoes with juice
• chopped spinach (see notes)
• salt to style (I didn’t use any salt since I used canned vegetable broth)

What provides further taste to this Vegan Lentil Soup?

Utilizing entire cumin seeds (affiliate hyperlink) and scorching them within the scorching oil provides a whole lot of taste to this soup. For those who solely have floor cumin, don’t let that cease you from making the soup, however entire cumin will give extra taste. There’s additionally a whole lot of taste from the onions, garlic, floor coriander, and paprika that’s cooked collectively earlier than you add the lentils and vegetable broth.

Can you utilize different colours of lentils for this soup?

Lentils can be utilized fairly interchangeably in recipes, though when you use crimson lentils for this Vegan Lentil Soup, they may soften way more shortly than the brown lentils the recipe requires. You would possibly take pleasure in utilizing a mixture of brown and crimson lentils when you’ve got each varieties available!

What different kinds of greens might you utilize for Vegan Lentil Soup?

I really like this soup with spinach however when you favor a extra assertive kind of greens I feel kale or swiss chard would even be scrumptious right here. Different greens will take a bit longer to prepare dinner.

Tips on how to Make Vegan Lentil Soup with Spinach:

(Scroll down for full recipe together with dietary info.)

1. In a big dutch oven kind pan that can maintain all of the soup components, warmth the olive oil over medium warmth and saute the cumin seeds, stirring a couple of occasions, till they’re aromatic and beginning to pop, about 3 minutes. (For those who’re a cumin fan like I’m, you would possibly even use a little bit extra cumin.)
2. Then add the onion, minced garlic, floor coriander, and black pepper and prepare dinner till the onions are softened and beginning to barely brown, about 4 minutes. Add the paprika and prepare dinner about 1 minute extra.
3. Measure 1 1/2 cups of plain brown lentils. (Lentils which can be contemporary will prepare dinner extra shortly than these which were sitting on the shelf within the retailer or in your pantry.)
4. Add the lentils and vegetable broth, carry to a slight boil, scale back warmth, and simmer about 30-40 minutes or till the lentils are fairly tender. Right here’s how the soup appeared as soon as the lentils have been performed.
5. Whereas the lentils prepare dinner, wash the spinach if wanted and finely chop.
6. Add the can of tomatoes and chopped spinach to the soup (and a little bit extra vegetable inventory if wanted) and prepare dinner about 30 extra minutes, or till the spinach is finished and the flavors have blended. Serve scorching.

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Low-Carb Weight loss plan / Low-Glycemic Weight loss plan / South Seashore Weight loss plan Strategies:
This tasty lentil soup with spinach is an ideal dish for low-glycemic diets or any part of the unique South Seashore Weight loss plan, however dried beans and lentils are a restricted meals for South Seashore Section One. That is too excessive on carbs for conventional low-carb eating regimen plans.

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:
Vegan Lentil Soup with Spinach, Tomatoes, and Cumin was first posted in 2008, up to date with higher images and step-by-step directions, March 2014, and final up to date 2021.

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