Recipes : Homemade Lentil Soup

Ingredients:

• Small sweet onion chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic mined
• About 1 cup fresh carrots sliced
• 2 tbsp (14g) real bacon bits
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 cup (128g) dry lentils rinsed
• ½ tsp dried thyme
• 5 cups chicken or vegetable broth (or a mixture of both)
• Non-stick cooking spray

Spray a medium saucepan with nonstick cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Sauté onion and garlic for a few minutes until soft.

Stir in carrots and bacon.

Boil Further, tomato paste. Stir and coat the vegetables with noodles.

Stir in lentils, broth and thyme.

Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, then reduce heat to low. Continue to simmer for about an hour.

Serve! Recipe makes five scales, as in the photo (2 scoops).

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