Roasted Autumn Vegetable & Red Lentil Soup
Aileen Cox Blundell
Aileen Cox Blundell
Recipe - Clondalkin
Roasted Autumn Vegetable & Red Lentil Soup
Prep Time20 Minutes
Servings6
Cook Time40 Minutes
Ingredients
1 butternut squash
4 carrots diced
2 onions roughly chopped
2 Parsnips diced
Drizzle rapeseed oil
5 cloves garlic
1 Leek
1 inch piece grated ginger
1 tin coconut milk
120g (3/4 cup) red lentils
1.5 ltrs vegetable stock/water
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoons ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 large handfuls chopped Kale
2 sprigs fresh thyme leaves
Parsley (to serve)
Sour cream (to serve)
Directions
INGREDIENTS
- 1 butternut squash
- 4 carrots diced
- 2 onions roughly chopped
- 2 Parsnips diced
- Drizzle rapeseed oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 Leek
- 1 inch piece grated ginger
- 1 tin coconut milk
- 120g (3/4 cup) red lentils
- 1.5 ltrs vegetable stock/water
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 large handfuls chopped Kale
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme leaves
TO SERVE
- Sour cream
- Parsley
- Thyme
METHOD
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
- Cut the butternut squash lengthways, deseed, then cut into bite sized chunks.
- Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper along with the carrots, onions and parsnips.
- Drizzle over a little rapeseed oil, then scatter over the garlic cloves leaving their skins on.
- Roast for 30 minutes until the vegetables are soft and cooked through.
- Meanwhile, heat a little more rapeseed oil in a large saucepan, gently fry the leek and ginger until soft.
- Pour in the coconut milk and red lentils, water (or stock) and the spices.
- Bring to the boil and boil continuously for 10 minutes, then cover and simmer for 30 minutes to ensure the lentils are cooked correctly.
- Add in the cooked roasted vegetables, kale and thyme leaves, then blitz using a stick blender or liquidiser until the soup is to the consistency you like.
- To serve, drizzle over a little sour cream and sprinkle over the parsley and thyme.
20 minutes
Prep Time
40 minutes
Cook Time
6
Servings
Shop Ingredients
Makes 6 servings
Butternut Squash
€0.99
Dunnes Stores Sweet & Crunchy Irish Carrots 1kg
€1.25€1.25/kg
Dunnes Stores 3 Fresh Large Onions
€1.49€0.50 each
Dunnes Stores Fresh Irish Parsnips
€1.49€2.98/kg
Dunnes Stores Pure Rapeseed Oil 1L
€2.29€2.29/l
Dunnes Stores Fresh Spanish Garlic
€0.49
Dunnes Stores Loose Leeks
€1.09
Not Available
Bunalun Organic Cooking Coconut Milk 400ml
€2.59€6.48/l
Dunnes Stores Wholefoods Red Split Lentils 500g
€0.95€1.90/kg
Knorr Stock Cubes Vegetable 8x 10 g
Buy 2 for €3
€2.79€34.88/kg
Dunnes Stores Cumin Ground 26g
€1.00€0.04/g
Dunnes Stores Coriander Ground 30g
€1.00€0.03/g
Dunnes Stores Turmeric Ground 42g
€1.00€0.02/g
Dunnes Stores Fresh Curly Kale 250g
€1.69€6.76/kg
Dunnes Stores Irish Herb Thyme 20g
€1.00€0.05/g
Dunnes Stores Irish Herb Flatleaf Parsley 30g
€1.00€0.03/g
Dunnes Stores Sour Cream 200ml
€0.89€4.45/l
Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 1 butternut squash
- 4 carrots diced
- 2 onions roughly chopped
- 2 Parsnips diced
- Drizzle rapeseed oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 Leek
- 1 inch piece grated ginger
- 1 tin coconut milk
- 120g (3/4 cup) red lentils
- 1.5 ltrs vegetable stock/water
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 large handfuls chopped Kale
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme leaves
TO SERVE
- Sour cream
- Parsley
- Thyme
METHOD
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
- Cut the butternut squash lengthways, deseed, then cut into bite sized chunks.
- Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper along with the carrots, onions and parsnips.
- Drizzle over a little rapeseed oil, then scatter over the garlic cloves leaving their skins on.
- Roast for 30 minutes until the vegetables are soft and cooked through.
- Meanwhile, heat a little more rapeseed oil in a large saucepan, gently fry the leek and ginger until soft.
- Pour in the coconut milk and red lentils, water (or stock) and the spices.
- Bring to the boil and boil continuously for 10 minutes, then cover and simmer for 30 minutes to ensure the lentils are cooked correctly.
- Add in the cooked roasted vegetables, kale and thyme leaves, then blitz using a stick blender or liquidiser until the soup is to the consistency you like.
- To serve, drizzle over a little sour cream and sprinkle over the parsley and thyme.