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 non-stick pan with cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Onion, garlic and fry for a few minutes until soft.

Mix the carrots and bacon.

Continue to cook the tomato paste. Toss and coat all vegetables with noodles.

Stir in lentils, broth and thyme.

Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally to make for cooking. Continue to simmer for about an hour.

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

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