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Easy Spinach Lentil Soup
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Maggie R.
"This lentil soup is easy and delicious. Though the recipe calls for carrots, potatoes, and spinach, add any other vegetables you love."
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Ingredients
1 h 20 m servings 385Original recipe yields 6 servings
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{{model.addEditText}} Print- Place bacon in a large skillet or Dutch oven and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in carrot, onion, and olive oil cooking until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Cover bacon mixture with chicken broth, water, and salsa; mix in lentils, bay leaf, cumin, rosemary, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil over high heat; reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until lentils are tender, 40 to 50 minutes. Stir in spinach and potatoes; simmer until spinach is wilted and potatoes are cooked, 10 to 15 minutes longer.
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Most helpful positive review
4/25/2013
Yum! I followed recipe as instructed with the following modifications and it turned out great! -Chopped bacon before frying -Used Medium Salsa, didn't add any black pepper -After I fried bacon ...
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1/5/2014
I used lentils for the first time in this recipe. A word of caution...if you use red lentils, reduce the cooking time. Red lentils take the shortest amount of time to cook. My soup came out m...
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4/25/2013
Yum! I followed recipe as instructed with the following modifications and it turned out great! -Chopped bacon before frying -Used Medium Salsa, didn't add any black pepper -After I fried bacon ...
9/8/2015
My husband loves lentils but I really, really did NOT, so he had a long wait (decades!) for his homemade lentil soup. Well, he's a great guy, even if he's a lentil fan, and I already had ever...
2/22/2014
Turned out GREAT! Such a nice change from the standard chili, broccoli cheddar, or baked potato soups. Light and relatively low cal. Will definitely do this again. I did add 2 tbsp. lemon juice ...
1/5/2014
I used lentils for the first time in this recipe. A word of caution...if you use red lentils, reduce the cooking time. Red lentils take the shortest amount of time to cook. My soup came out m...
5/6/2015
It was pretty good, but nothing special. Followed the recipe, but maybe next time I'd add more bacon, or some kind of Italian sausage (but that kind of takes away from it being a healthy soup, w...
11/25/2013
I really liked this soup! I thought the bacon/salsa/rosemary combination was new and different and it used up a bag of spinach I needed to finish. I totally took out most of the bacon grease b...
4/29/2018
The recipe was easy to follow and it turned out fabulously! I did not add the olive oil as the bacon fat was sufficient. My whole family loved it! Thank you!
5/30/2016
Wonderful soup!! The salsa gives it a delicious kick. I made no changes to the original recipe.