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Lentil Soup
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 The soup is excellent and is a meal by itself. Add a slice of homemade rye bread and it is "enough" for dinner. If you are trying to save money on your food budget, try cooking this soup twice a week. If you need to be able to eat well without using refrigerated foods, this should be one of your regular meals.

Pressure Cooker Lentil Soup

  • 1/2 cup lentils
  • 2Tbs olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 3 cloves
  • 1 tsp Herbs de Provence or other herb
  • 1 tsp Basil
  • some ground pepper
  • 1/2 tsp celery seeds
  • 1 TBS flour
  • a shot of wine, sherry or beer
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • a shot of soy sauce, Maggi, Bragg's Amino's, Worcestershire or other sauce

Rinse 1/2 cup lentils in water
Chop 1 onion and a few cloves garlic.
Sautee onion and garlic in 2 Tbs olive oil in a pressure cooker pot.
Peel and dice 2 potatoes and a carrot into the pot.
Add 3 cloves, 1 tsp herb de provence and 1 tsp other herb (basil , thyme, rosemary, marjoran, parsley, etc.)
Add a little ground pepper and a half teaspoon celery seed.
When vegetables start to soften, add 1 Tbs flour. It will get sticky, so stir it.
After a minute or two of frying the flour, add a shot of of wine or cooking sherry.
Stir well, add lentils and 2 cups water.
Stir well, cap pressure cooker, bring up to pressure, reduce flame, cook 20 minutes under pressure.

Turn off flame, let pressure drop slowly.
Add 1 tsp salt (more or less to taste) and your favorite flavoring sauce.

1/2 cup dry lentils will be enough for two people for lunch and with enough leftovers for dinner, if you add potatoes and are not a big eater.

This recipe gets my recommendation as the best pressure cooker - legume - unrefrigerated ingredients recipe that I have ever tried. Good boat food!

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