Yellow Split Lentil Soup

Ingredients

• 1 cup split yellow lentils
• 1 large white onion, chopped
• 1 medium potato, peeled and diced
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 2 Maggi chicken or vegetable stock cubes
• pinch of ground cumin
• pinch of saffron powder
• pinch of turmeric (for color)
• about 1.5 liters boiling water (or more as needed)
• This yellow split lentil soup recipe was shared by a friend and cook on Shou Tabkhin El Yom:
• Rana Atwi
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• For more easy, nutritious soups from Rana try: Lentil soup with chard and lemon

Method

1. Sauté the chopped onion in a little corn oil until it softens.
2. Add the potato pieces and carrot pieces and sauté them briefly until they soften slightly.
3. Add the washed lentils and pour in boiling water, the stock cubes, turmeric, saffron powder and cumin and stir; leave them on medium heat for about an hour, stirring from time to time.
4. Put the yellow split lentil soup in the blender and blend it.
5. Serve the yellow split lentil soup with lemon and toasted bread.
6. Rana Atwi
7. For more easy and nutritious soups in Rana's style: Lentil soup with chard and lemon