When I was a kid my mother and her mother (both German) would make lentil soup and it would be bland and carrot filled.
I'm sure it had other stuff in it. But young me remembers the fucking carrot chunks.
Now I love lentil soup, because I make it my way.
Two packs of that hot Italian ground sausage, pictured at left.
Two cans of crushed tomatoes. The big ones.
A bag (450g) of Red Lentils and a bag of Green Lentils also 450g.
Both are pictured below.
I get the low salt ones because there is a lot of salt in the sausage.
The instructions are pretty simple.
Fry the sausage in the pot. Add a bit of water to keep it from burning.
Also take the opportunity to break the sausage up into bits with a spatula, spoon or hammer.
Once the sausage is all cooked add the chicken stock and the lentils.
boil the shit out of it.
An hour or two later add the crushed tomatoes. Both cans.
Turn the heat down to a lower setting.
Otherwise the fucker will burn and you might as well dump the whole vat of soup out.
When the soup starts to boil make sure you stir it.
A lot otherwise the fucker will burn and you might as well dump the whole vat of soup out.
After five or ten but not fifteen minutes of stirring it'll be ready.
Let the soup cool and thicken for about half an hour before serving.
Then eat three to five bowls of it.
This soup is high protein and nutritious and stuff and it is probably gluten free depending on the ground sausage you buy.
It is also amazing.
The meal should cost:
- $8-$10 for the sausage
- $12 for the chicken stock
- $4 for the tomatoes
- $4-$6 for the lentils
So around $30 for enough soup to feed a family of four for 3 or 4 days.
Longer if you don't like your kids.
That's all for now.
William
