Sweet Potato, Lentil & Blood Orange

Name: Sweet Potato, Lentil & Blood Orange
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 175 g red lentils, rinsed well; salt and freshly ground black pepper; juice and zest of 1 blood orange; 1 small sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 2 stock cubes; 1 carrot, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

This is a lovely sweet and zesty soup: it can be made with ordinary oranges but it’s a great excuse to use sweet Sicilian blood oranges which are in the shops from December to March.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2

Soup
March
Vegetarian
Spring
December
February
Gluten-free

Method

Put a pot on a medium-low heat and add the oil or butter. When it’s hot, fry the onion and garlic for 5–10 minutes until they’re soft.

Add the sweet potato, carrot and lentils and give everything a stir.

Pour in 1.2 litres of boiling water, and crumble in the stock cubes along with