Nancy’s Lentil & Harissa Soup

Specially for John and Ronnie – my version of lentil and harissa soup! 🙂

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 1 small leek
• 1 capsicum
• 2 sticks celery
• 1 potato
• handful of parsley
• same of mint
• 2 cans of lentil (drained & rinsed)
• 400 grams finely chopped tomatoes
• 1 cup red lentils
• 1/2 cup small noodles
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika powder
• same ginger powder
• 1 soup spoon harissa (or tandoori paste – I like to use that too!)

 

Method

Cut up the veggies. Put some oil in a saucepan and lightly fry them. Add the spices and then the washed red lentils. Put everything in 2 litres of water or chicken stock and cook the mix for 15 minutes. Add the tomatoes & potato, parsley & mint and after that add the tinned lentils & noodles. Now, at this time, you have to see how much more liquid you need to add. Put in enough to have it not too thick.
Enjoy!