Friday, June 25, 2010

Core Lentil and Potato Soup

Also suitable for slow cooker - simmer on high for 1 1/2 - 2 hours

Serves: 6 x 1 cup serves
Difficulty: Easy
Points: 1 pt per cup
Cooking time: 20 mins

Ingredients:
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 large onion, diced small
  • 4 vegetable stock cubes, and 1L water
  • 100 g  Lentils, split type
  • 300 g Potato (3 medium), peeled and diced to under 1cm
  • 1 bunch spinach, finely chopped (or 150 g, frozen spinach)
  • 1/2 tsp dried thyme
Method:
Spray pot with oil.
Heat and brown onion and garlic.
Add remaining ingredients and simmer with lid on until potato is tender (15-20 mins)

Not on Core? The total Points for this recipe is 7 pts, or 1 pt per cup

1 comment:

Kelvin said...

I am confused about two Thai ingredients.
One is preserved turnip (Chi Po), used in Pad Thai and another is preserved radish (Tang Chi), used in bean curd soup. What’s the difference?
Because radish is a kind of turnip.