Moroccan Lentil Pumpkin Soup
Packed full of flavour and goodness, this Moroccan lentil soup will satisy. Top with sour cream or yoghurt and more fresh herbs - so yum!
If the Thermomix is good at anything...it is making soup. (check out my Souperbowl book if you don’t believe me!) I love to whip up a soup in very little time packed with flavour just like this one. Serve with or without bread, rolls, flat bread of choice. We didn’t have anything with it except I admit, I did have more than one serving. Delish!
Preserved Lemon can be purchased or you can make your own. I have yet to do a recipe...watch this space.
Need
- 1 large onion, peeled and halved
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 cm piece fresh ginger, peeled
- 1 chilli, OR 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 1 Teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 Teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 Teaspoon ground smoked paprika
- 1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 Tablespoon turmeric
- Pinch saffron (optional)
- 1 carrot, chopped in thirds
- 1 stick celery, chopped in thirds
- 200-250 Grams pumpkin, peeled and cubed
- 50 Grams tomato paste
- 400g Tins tomatoes
- 200 Grams red lentils, rinsed
- 600 Grams liquid stock of choice
- pink salt flakes and cracked black pepper to taste BUY
- Handfuls fresh coriander leaves
- Few sprigs parsley
- Yoghurt to serve
- Preserved lemon to serve, sliced thinly
Do
- 1
Place onion, garlic, ginger and chilli into Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 6. Add oil and all dry spices then saute 5 min/Varoma/speed 1/MC off.
- 2
Add chopped vegetables and chop 3 sec/speed 6.. Add tomato paste, tomatoes, lentils and stock and cook 35 min/100ºC/speed 1.
- 3
Add seasoning and herbs, and puree 5-6 sec/speed 9 before serving.
More
Serve with dollops of yoghurt and sliced preserved lemon, with extra salt and pepper to taste.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
