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- Hi, friends, welcome to my channel.
If you're new here, my name is Alyssa.
Today I have got anawesome recipe for you.
We are making a detox lentil soup,
but we are flavoring it withreally amazing Moroccan spices.
So this is a soup that I know is going
to warm your little body(laughs) inside and out.
It's awesome for meal prep.
It's vegan.
It's high protein.
It's gluten-free.
And it's full of really great detoxifying
and digestion-friendly ingredients.
So if you do wanna make it,
the full recipe is up onthe blog, as it always is.
I've linked it down inthe description box below.
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All right, so the first stepin making our detox lentil soup
is to heat up some oliveoil in a large stock pot,
soup pot, Dutch oven,whatever you wanna use.
I love my Dutch oven.
I'll link it down below for you.
Once that oil is hot,
you are going to add insome chopped up red onion,
as well as some chopped upcelery, some chopped up carrot,
and some minced garlic.
From here, we're just gonnasaute this all together
until everything starts to soften
and gets really nice and fragrant.
It takes about five minutes or so,
and you definitely don'thave to stir it constantly.
You can just give it a quick stir
maybe every 30 seconds or so.
But once the vegetables havecooked down a little bit
and, again, are startingto get nice and soft,
our next step will be toadd in some cubed potato.
And we're just gonnakind of get the potato
a little bit browned on the outside.
If you don't wanna use potato,
you could swap the potato forturnip, rutabaga, celeriac,
basically something that'sa little bit starchy.
You could also use sweetpotato, butternut squash.
But it's nice to have thatstarchy vegetable in there
because it adds a really nice texture.
From there, we are going to season,
and we're gonna use saltand pepper of course.
And again, give it a sauteuntil it's all mixed together
and everything starts toget nice and flavorful.
Once you have let thatcook down a little bit
and you've let the vegetablesget nice and flavorful
from the salt and pepper,
we're gonna add in the rest of our spices.
The spices that we're gonna be using
for the soup are turmeric,
as well as some groundginger, smoked paprika,
ground cumin, and some cinnamon.
And again, we are goingto stir that all together
until your vegetables are niceand coated in your spices.
Now, you might need to deglaze the pan,
which I am gonna do herewith a little bit of water.
Sometimes if you're using a lot of spices
with not a lot of vegetables,
it starts to kind of stick to the bottom,
and it gets a little bit charred almost.
So just add a splash or two of water,
and that's just gonnahelp loosen everything up
on the bottom of the pan andhelp you saute everything
and make sure that nothing is sticking
or burning on the bottom of the pan.
Once everything is nice andflavorful from the spices,
we are gonna add in therest of our ingredients.
So we are using some green lentils,
as well as some red lentils.
This combo is great.
We're also gonna add insome vegetable broth,
as well as some water.
And you'll mix that all together.
Once we have that going,
we are going to scoop alittle of the broth out.
And what we're gonnado is add that directly
into a little bowl thathas our tomato paste.
I find that this is theeasiest way to combine
or basically dissolve tomato paste.
So I'm gonna just addthe hot broth directly
into this little bowl,
and then I'll use a spoonto kind of stir it together
and make an almosttomatoey slurry type thing.
And it just is much easierto stir into the soup
so that you don't get chunks of tomato.
So once you have it allcombined and smooth,
you can just scoop it intoyour soup and use your spoon
to just stir that tomatointo the rest of the soup.
From there, we are gonnalet this come to a simmer.
And we are gonna just let this simmer
for a good 30-ish minutes
until the lentils have started to soften
and some of the water has been absorbed.
This is what it will look like.
And if it's a little bit to thick for you
and you want to have ita little bit thinner,
you could totally stir in alittle bit more water or broth.
I personally like to stirin some non-dairy milk.
You could use almond milk.
I love coconut milk in soup,
so I'm just using somefull-fat coconut milk here.
And I'm also gonna flavorit with some lemon juice,
and we're gonna add in somespinach to finish things off.
So I love adding spinach into soup
because it cooks down so much
and you can really add a ton in there.
I usually add about two to three,
sometimes even four cupsof spinach into my soups
because, like I said, it cooks down
and you don't even realize
that you've had that many greens in there.
So that's what we're gonna do here.
We're adding about three cups of spinach.
Just stir it all together intothe soup until it is combined
and the spinach hasgotten nice and wilted.
And that is the final result
of your beautiful Moroccan lentil soup.
Now, I really want youto see how to serve it
because I love the toppingcombination that I have here.
So we're gonna just scoop thelentil soup into our bowls.
Once you have your bowl nice and filled,
we're gonna move on to the topping.
So I do a generousdollop of coconut yogurt.
And then we're also going
to add on some fresh chopped cilantro.
I like to do some raw jalapenos as well
because it adds a littlebit of spice and kick.
I love spice in my soup.
And then I finish it offwith some raw red onion
which is more for presentation,
but it also adds a nicelittle crunch and bite
as you're eating the soup.
And then you are ready to dig in.
This soup is so delicious.
It is super, super flavorful.
It stores really well.
You can freeze it.
You can keep it in therefrigerator for four to five days.
And it's so hearty, super, super cozy,
packed with fiber andobviously plant-based protein
from all those amazing lentils.
And it's just one of those recipes
that I think you aregoing to absolutely devour
and come back to all winter long.
So I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
And there you have it, my friends.
I hope you enjoyed thisdelicious soup recipe.
I know it's going to be astaple for you all winter long
and even into maybe next year.
But it's so delicious, packed with flavor.
Like I said in the beginning,it's really high protein.
Lentils are an amazing sourceof plant-based protein.
This recipe is also meal prep-friendly,
freezer-friendly, you name it.
You guys are gonna love it,
and I can't wait to see your recreations.
If you do end up making it,
make sure to share aphoto with me on Instagram
by tagging @simplyquinoaor using #simplyquinoa.
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Don't forget to subscribe before you go,
and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Bye!
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