Best lentil soup recipe

Do your kids love soup? Leah is a crazy picky eater, but the one thing she will always eat is soup, and thank goodness, because it’s one of the healthiest things she could choose.

This is the BEST lentil soup recipe. It's healthy, fresh and delicious!

My mom came up with the best lentil soup recipe and it’s one of my all time favourites. It’s loaded with veggies and perfect for a cold winter day… or in my case, perfect when I feel like our family hasn’t been eating healthy and we need a little nutrient boost!

Lentil soup recipe

One of my most favourite things about making soup is that it is next to impossible to mess it up, so if you want to season it differently for your tastes or change the amounts, it will probably still taste great!

Ingredients:

1 onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

900mL box of reduced sodium chicken broth

900mL water (I just refill the chicken broth box again and pour it into the soup)

1 can diced tomatoes (bonus if you buy diced tomatoes with herbs and spices… in this case you can leave out the italian herbs listed below)

7 stalks of celery, chopped

5 carrots, chopped

1/2 cup red lentils

1/4 cup barley

1 tsp Italian seasoning

2 tsp thyme

2 bay leaves

The short instructions are: saute the onions and garlic, add all the ingredients and simmer for 1.5 hours.

Here is the longer description with pictures:

onions and garlic in a pot chicken broth poured over onions tomatoes added to broth water added to the soup

Saute the onion and garlic in a little bit of oil. Add the chicken broth and the water. Add the can of tomatoes.

adding the lentils to the soup adding the barley to the soup

Add the lentils and the barley.

adding the bay leaves to the lentil soup Adding the italian seasoning to the soup adding the thyme to the soup spices in the lentil soup

Add the bay leaves, Italian seasoning and thyme.

7 chopped celery stalks adding the chopped celery to the lentil soup

Chop the celery and and add it to the soup.

5 chopped carrots carrots being added to the lentil soup

Chop the carrots and add them to the soup.

lentil soup in the pot

The soup will look something like the picture above. Mmmm….

lentil soup recipe

Cover the soup, bring it to a boil and simmer for about 1.5 hours or until the lentils are soft.

Lentil Soup

It’s a super hearty soup that I make several times a month in the winter. I love to make a pot on Sunday and then have it for lunches during the week.

lentil soup put in the baby bullet