Sweet Summer Lentil

Name: Sweet Summer Lentil
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 stock cubes; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 or 4 apricots, destoned and roughly chopped (or 8 dried apricots, roughly chopped); 175 g red lentils, washed well; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 1 teaspoon coriander seeds; 3 or 4 apricots, destoned and roughly chopped (or 8 dried apricots, roughly chopped); 3 plum tomatoes, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

A fun summer soup which can be altered by swapping fresh nectarines or peaches for the apricots.

Ingredients

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

Soup
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Autumn
Summer
August

Method

Heat a pot on a medium-low heat and add a tablespoon of oil or butter. Fry the onion and garlic for 5–10 minutes until soft.

Meanwhile toast the spices in a dry frying pan for a few minutes until they start to release their smell. Stir them into the onions and garlic.

Add the roughly chopped tomatoes, apricots and lentils to the pot, and stir it all well.

Pour in