Another lentil soup last night!... haha... currently these lentil soups were the inspiration of one of my kitchen cleansing activities. I feel I have far too many ingredients in storage, so I'm doing no grocery shopping (except for single critical ingredients..) for still another 1-2 weeks, hence demanding creative application of only the ingredients on hand, reducing my pantry volume. So I found small portions of two colors of lentils--brown and orange--so decided like with bell pepper soup, to make a bi-color lentil soup. Those orange lentils are sure more tender and cook up much softer faster than the big brown ones I used, which practically made refried-bean-like puree without twice as much broth to dilute the thickness.
Anyway, I also supplemented the orange ones with one red bell pepper to help the color, and nice flavor, too.
Prettymuch the same recipe as what I last did, except used different seasonings for the orange one-- no cumin or sour cream to make it more turkish-flavored. Just did that one with the bell pepper, onions, garlic, paprika, boullion, the reduced white wine, small amount of thyme... can't remember what else. :P
Patterning those two-color dishes is kind of fun :D and I have to say doing the two-color does make it a more presentable dish for a party..
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The soup looks so professional this way, with the 2 colors. Perhaps I will try it someday, when I have some guests :p (that means you!)
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