Soups · Vegetarian

Mercimek
Çorbası

Mercimek Çorbası
Time
15'
+ 0h 25' chilling
Diff.
easy
Kcal
320
/ serving
Servings
4
Gather 16 ingredients before cooking
Scale
Units
01 You'll need check when you have it
02 To finish last minute: ~60 min window
Step 01 of 06

Rinse the lentils

250 g

Tip the red lentils (250 g) into a sieve and rinse under cold water until the water runs clear. Lentils are coated in starchy dust that turns the soup grey and cloudy.

Step 02 of 06

Chop the vegetables

1 szt
1 szt
1 szt

Finely chop the onion (1 szt). Peel the carrot (1 szt) and potato (medium) (1 szt) and cut into 1 cm cubes. Everything gets blended, so precision doesn't matter.

Step 03 of 06

Build the base

30 g
2 łyżka
1 szt
1 łyżka
1 łyżka
1 łyżeczka
1 łyżeczka

Melt the butter (30 g) with olive oil (2 łyżka) in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion (1 szt) and cook for 5 minutes until soft. Stir in the wheat flour (1 łyżka) for 1 minute — raw flour tastes like glue, it needs to toast. Add the tomato paste (1 łyżka), ground cumin (1 łyżeczka) and sweet paprika (1 łyżeczka), stir for another 30 seconds.

Tip
Paprika burns instantly and turns bitter. Add it last and pour in the broth right after.
Step 04 of 06

Simmer

1500 ml
250 g
1 szt
1 szt
1 łyżeczka

Pour in the vegetable broth (1500 ml), add the red lentils (250 g), carrot (1 szt), potato (medium) (1 szt) and salt (1 łyżeczka). Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer with the lid ajar for 25 minutes, until the lentils completely fall apart.

Step 05 of 06

Blend until smooth

Blend the soup with a stick blender directly in the pot until completely smooth and creamy. It should have the consistency of thin cream — if too thick, add boiling water.

Step 06 of 06

Paprika butter and serve

30 g
1 łyżeczka
1 łyżeczka
1 szt

Melt the butter (for drizzle) (30 g) in a small pan over low heat. Once melted, remove from heat and stir in the hot paprika (1 łyżeczka) and dried mint (1 łyżeczka) — the warmth releases the aroma and colour. Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with the butter and serve with lemon (to serve) (1 szt) wedges to squeeze.

Tip
Add lemon juice at the table, not to the pot. Acid otherwise dominates and kills the lentil flavour.
Mercimek Çorbası
Bon appétit

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Enjoy — now it's a matter of patience and a good table.

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