Moroccan carrot and lentil soup

[judydawn]

Name of Recipe:Moroccan Carrot and Lentil Soup
Number of People:serves 4
Ingredients:
1 tblspn olive oil
l onion quartered
l clove garlic
2 tsp Moroccan seasoning
1/2 cup red lentils (90 grams)
600g carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
l litre water
2 tblspns veg stock concentrate
60g crumbled feta or plain yoghurt, to serve
Salt to taste

Preparation:

1) Place the onion and garlic into the TM bowl and blitz 3 seconds on speed 5.

2) Add the oil and saute 5 mins/Varoma temp/speed 1.

3)Add the Moroccan seasoning and the lentils and cook 1 minute/100o/ speed 1.

4) Add the carrots and blitz for 3 seconds/speed 6. Repeat if necessary.

5)  Add the water and the stock concentrate and cook 100o/speed 1/ 30 minutes.

6) When cooked slowly work up to speed 9 and blend for 1 min.

Serve topped with crumbled feta or a dollop of plain yoghurt if preferred.

This recipe was adapted from one published in Take 5 magazine.

b]Members' comments[/b]

JulieO - I made this Judy using my own Moroccan seasoning. Added a umami paste cube also.  I thoroughly enjoyed it as is and next time I'm going to try 500g carrots and 100g sweet potato as sweet potato seems to go well with Moroccan flavours. I blitzed for 1 min/speed 10 to get really smooth and served with a dollop of thick natural yoghurt and a grind of black pepper.

TAT - Wow! This is soup-er! Simple, tasty and cheap! The soup is lovely and thick, and the flavour is spot on, I just needed to add a little salt. I reckon you could use the spice combination from the Moroccan Tomato and Red Lentil Soup in the Everyday Cookbook if you didn't have ready made seasoning to hand.

[Thermomixer]

Sound very healthy and healing.  Thansk JD 

[droverjess]

What is Moroccan seasoning please? Thx

[Amy :-)]

DJ, like most seasonings it is mainly salt, but the one I have also contains: natural chicken flavour, pepper, garlic, sugar, onion, rice flour, rosemary, turmeric, paprika, food acid, capsicum, coriander, cumin, vegetable oil, ginger and natural lemon flavour
Not sure if this helps you at all. Do you get Masterfoods brand over there?

[droverjess]

Ok thx. Your message arrived Just in time for me to add turmeric to other carrot soup. Have posted a photo on that thread.

[JulieO]

I made this today Judy using my own Moroccan seasoning. Added a umami paste cube also.  I thoroughly enjoyed it as is and next time I'm going to try 500g carrots and 100g sweet potato as sweet p seems to go well with Moroccan flavours. I blitzed for 1 min/speed 10 to get really smooth and served with a dollop of thick nat yoghurt and a grind of black pepper. 5/5.

[Amy :-)]

I think I'm going to try making my own Morrocan seasoning. Thanks for posting that link Judy

[judydawn]

Glad you enjoyed it Julie. 

Let us know how that seasoning goes Amy.

[JulieO]

This is the seasoning I make, similar to the one Judy posted.

http://www.food.com/recipe/moroccan-seasoning-mix-141053

[Kristy-Anne]

I am making this as I type. It is cooking away nicely. I will need to make up a proper Moroccan spice next time.

[the annoyed thyroid]

Wow! This is soup-er! Simple, tasty and cheap! The soup is lovely and thick, and the flavour is spot on, I just needed to add a little salt. I reckon you could use the spice combination from the Moroccan Tomato and Red Lentil Soup in the Everyday Cookbook if you didn't have ready made seasoning to hand. This recipe is a keeper! Thanks for sharing 

[judydawn]

Thanks TAT, glad you enjoyed it.

[fstt]

Sounds very nice,even in the 44 degree day we have here today!I'll save this for a colder day but do I use dried lentils or soak them first?

[judydawn]

There's no need to soak red lentils fstt, if I had to soak something I probably would never get around to making the recipe 

[fstt]

Cool, thanks for that, will give it a go when it gets a bit cooler 
( i'm waiting for my TMX to arrive and am absolutely amazed how fast the cooking time is with a lot of recipes that i've come across during my research, getting more excited by the minute!)