How to Prepare Delicious Thrifty Dahl Soup with Dripping Toast

Thrifty Dahl Soup with Dripping Toast.

You can have Thrifty Dahl Soup with Dripping Toast using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Thrifty Dahl Soup with Dripping Toast

1. You need 2 cups of red lentils.
2. You need 5 cups of water.
3. You need 1 of large onion.
4. Prepare of small piece fresh ginger.
5. It's 4 tbsp of lemon juice.
6. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic.
7. You need 1 of and a half tsp garam masala.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of ground turmeric.
9. It's of half a red chilli.
10. It's 3 tsp of vegetable stock.
11. You need of salt and black pepper.
12. You need 2 tsp of cumin seeds.
13. Prepare of butter.

Thrifty Dahl Soup with Dripping Toast step by step

1. Measure the red lentils into a sieve and rinse briefly under cold running water. Transfer to a large pan and add the water..
2. Roughly chop the onion and finely slice the ginger and garlic. Add to the pan together with the lemon juice and the half red chilli..
3. Place the pan on a high heat and add the spices, vegetable stock and a good amount of black pepper. Bring to the boil, then cover and leave to simmer gently for about 20 minutes..
4. When the lentils are broken down and forming a mush, taste for seasoning then blend until smooth with a stick blender. Remove the chilli first if you don't want the soup to be too spicy..
5. Dry fry the cumin until toasted and aromatic. Serve the soup with a knob of butter, sprinkled with cumin and extra black pepper and lemon juice if you wish, together with hot toast spread with dripping..