Slow and Hearty Soup
If you have high cholesterol, then this is the soup for you! It is a fat free, hearty soup guaranteed to fill you up. Lentils, pearl barley, garlic and vegetables are heart friendly and the addition of pork makes it an all round meal in a bowl.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
- 200g brown lentils
- 100g pearl barley
- 1 chopped carrot
- 2 chopped sticks of celery
- 1 chopped onion
- 100g chopped cabbage
- 1 cube of frozen spinach
- 6 cloves minced garlic
- 450g cubed pork
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp thyme
- 750ml chicken stock
- 750ml - 1L water
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- salt/pepper to taste
- To serve
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar per serving (optional)
- Grated parmesan cheese (optional)
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:6hr ›
Ready in:6hr30min
- Submerge lentils under water to remove impurities that will rise to the surface, rinse and drain.
- Add lentils to the slow cooker with all the other ingredients in the order listed. Stir and cook on high for 6-7 hours. If necessary, add 250 to 500ml of extra water to achieve desired consistency.
- Remove the bay leaf before serving. It may sound strange but mixing a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar through your soup gives it a tangy zing! Alternatively you could simply top it with grated parmesan cheese.
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(5)
Reviews in English (7)
Mine was amazing really tasty and certainly warming!! Thank you xxxxxxxxxxx - 19 Nov 2014
2016 UPDATE - just made this soup again and this time I fried the onions, celery, meat and garlic etc for about 5 minutes to soften and it made a HUGE difference in getting the taste into it. And I would fry again next time. The cider vinegar suggestion helps as does the Parmesan cheese. So this time I give it 4 stars and would highly advise anyone to make Very easy to prepare and it was a thick warming soup, but so, so bland. I had to add huge amounts of salt and pepper and extra herbs and cider vinegar to get any taste in it. Adding a little Parmesan to each serving helped too. But once I got got the 'taste' into it, it was very nice and would consider doing again. - 28 Jan 2013
tasteless and really bland - 07 Mar 2018