Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)

[farfallina]

Farro Lentil Soup

Ingredients:
10g parsley leaves
40g onion, quartered
75g celery stalk, roughly chopped
60g carrot, roughly chopped
100g red pepper, roughly chopped
2 cloves of garlic
30g extra virgin olive oil
200g green lentils (to be weighed before rinsing)
1000gr boiling water
2 tsps Thermomix Meat or Vegetable Stock Concentrate
100g farro (spelt)

Preparation:
    Chop parsley for 5 seconds on Speed 7 and set aside.
    Chop onion, celery stalk, carrot, pepper and cloves of garlic by speeding Up and Down between 2 and 5 with short intervals until they are chopped as you desire.
    Add oil and cook for 4 minutes at 100°C on Reverse /  Speed 1.
    Add rinsed/drained lentils, Thermomix concentrate and boiling water. Cook for 10 minutes at 100°C on Reverse / Speed 1.
    Add farro and half of parsley. Cook for 30 minutes at 100°C on Reverse / Speed 1.
    Serve into serving bowls, sprinkle with the remaining parsley.


Photos: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.it/2012/04/farro-lentil-soup.html

[dede]

Perfect time to be posting soup recipes as the weather is getting colder and colder. I wish my lot enjoyed soup more though
A nice hot soup with some crusty bread, yum yum.

[farfallina]

Here it starts getting warmer so I will be posting some icecream recipes soon. Do you think your lot would prefer those no matter what the temperature is over there?

[dede]

Yep you got it Farfallina

[judydawn]

Ice-cream all year round here Farfallina.

[farfallina]

Good to know judy 

Upon all your comments I decided to change my posting schedule and I will soon send an icecream recipe 

[Amy :-)]

Hi guys, just wondering if this soup would freeze well?

[judydawn]

I can't see why not Amy, I have frozen all types of soups in the past.

[Amy :-)]

I can't see why not Amy, I have frozen all types of soups in the past.

Thanks JD

You've probably realised by now that I don't have much experience with lentils or freezing, so I just wanted to check

[judydawn]

You will learn something almost everyday on this forum Amy - it's a great source of information and you are doing the right thing by asking questions.

[Amy :-)]

I made this tonight! I had to make a few adaptions. I had no red pepper so I just used a bit extra of the other vegies, and I couldn't find farro in Woolworths so I used pearl barley instead.

It is ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!! You know JD, I don't think any is going to make it to the freezer...

Thanks for the recipe farallina. This was my first time cooking lentils and it was fantastic

[farfallina]

I am happy you enjoyed it Amy
I really like lentil soups
There are many in the forum
You can try them as well

Your photo looks delicious!
Thank you for sharing 

[droverjess]

If farro is spelt I only have wholemeal spelt. Is farro whole spelt?
Thx

[farfallina]

Hi Droverjess
I guess there is a confusion about what exactly farro is
You can see the farro article in wikipedia.

I live in Italy so what farro is to me is what they sell here as farro
You can see the photo of the type of farro I used here

[Amy :-)]

Oh, that looks a lot like pearl barley to me... Can someone clarify please? Pearl barley is what I had to substitute for the farro anyway, and it turned out really yum.

I had trouble finding farro because I have only ever seen it rolled for making porridge, so I wasn't sure what I was looking for.