Lentil Coconut Soup with Lentil Apple Salad

Lentil Coconut Soup with Lentil Apple Salad

Provided by: Marcus Samuelsson

1 hr total 15 mins prep Full Screen

Servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups dried lentils
• SOUP:
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 inch peeled ginger
• 1/2 apple cut in four
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon gram masala
• SALAD:
• 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons parsley, chopped
• 1 tablespoons basil, chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
• 1/2 diced red onion
• 1/2 diced green apple

Directions

• Place lentils in a large saucepan. Cover with water to 2 inches above lentils, and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes or until tender. Drain well and set aside half of the lentils for the salad.
• To make soup, combine half of the cooked lentils, coconut milk, water, apple, onion, garlic, and ginger and gram masala in a saucepan. Simmer for 20 minutes, then puree till smooth in blender. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
• To make salad, combine lemon juice, olive oil, parsley, basil, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Add remaining lentils, apple and red onion to lemon juice mixture; toss gently to coat. Place salad in the center of a bowl and pour in lentil soup.

• Filed under:
• Bean & Legume,
• Vegetarian,
• Soup

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Comments

[Janie Sanchez]

06:25 PM on 11/17/2012

I LOVE the soup recipe. Made it a few weeks ago and had a lot of left overs to freeze ... Had easy lunches for days! Can't wait to give it to my daughter now that she'll be in college.