Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon

Name: Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 serving
Ingredients: 1 kg sweet potato; 200 gm onion; 4 cloves garlic; 2 tablespoons ginger; 1 tablespoon Turmeric; 150 gm Bacon; 40 ml olive oil; 800 gm brown lentils; 1 litre chicken stock; 600 ml tomato passata; 2 Tablespoons parsley; 100 gm baby spinach

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Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
35 mins
Servings
6
Course
Soup

Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon

Iris Warren

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This is an easy soup. Just requires some initial chopping before you have a healing winter dinner that cooks in 20 minutes.

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Ingredients

Servings

1 kg sweet potato Orange, peeled and diced small
200 gm onion diced (1 onion)
4 cloves garlic crushed
2 tablespoons ginger grated
1 tablespoon Turmeric grated or 1 teaspoon powdered
150 gm Bacon diced rindless no fat
40 ml olive oil 2 tablespoons
800 gm brown lentils 2 tins, don't drain
1 litre chicken stock
600 ml tomato passata
2 Tablespoons parsley chopped
100 gm baby spinach leaves

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Instructions

Heat a 5 litre pot and add the olive oil, onions and bacon and stir till starting to get soft. Add the ginger, garlic and turmeric. Stir well and cook or 1 minute. Add the sweet potato, tomato passata and stock. Simmer till the potatoes are soft, 15 to 20 minutes.
Pour in the lentils water and all. Bring back to the boil.
Season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley. Turn off and stir in the spinach if using.class
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