Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon
This is an easy soup. Just requires some initial chopping before you have a healing winter dinner that cooks in 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Sweet Potato Orange, peeled and diced small
- 200 gm onion diced (1 onion)
- 4 cloves garlic crushed
- 2 tablespoons ginger grated
- 1 tablespoon turmeric grated or 1 teaspoon powdered
- 150 gm bacon diced rindless no fat
- 40 ml olive oil 2 tablespoons
- 800 gm brown lentils 2 tins, don't drain
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 600 ml tomato passata
- 2 Tablespoons parsley chopped
- 100 gm baby spinach leaves
Instructions
- Heat a 5 litre pot and add the olive oil, onions and bacon and stir till starting to get soft. Add the ginger, garlic and turmeric. Stir well and cook or 1 minute. Add the sweet potato, tomato passata and stock. Simmer till the potatoes are soft, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Pour in the lentils water and all. Bring back to the boil.
- Season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley. Turn off and stir in the spinach if using.class
- Simplezz