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Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon
5 from 9 votes

Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Bacon

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

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

Ingredients

  • 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

Instructions

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  1. 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.
  2. Pour in the lentils water and all. Bring back to the boil.
  3. Season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley. Turn off and stir in the spinach if using.class
  4. Simplezz