Sweet Potato, Lentil & Blood Orange

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

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

Spring
March
December
Soup
February
Vegetarian
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