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Vegetable Soup with Homemade Broth Cube

Vegetable Soup with Homemade Broth Cube

Servings:

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/3 cup red lentils
  • 1 tablespoon millet
  • 3 smaller potatoes
  • 1.25 liters water
  • 1 cup frozen green beans
  • 2 tablespoons homemade broth cube (or approximately 4 frozen cubes)
  • handful of kale or spinach
  • 2 tablespoons chopped chives

Preparation

  1. Pour oil into a pot, add butter, dry lentils and millet and peeled and diced potatoes. Heat for about 3 minutes stirring with a wooden spoon.
  2. Pour in water (preferably hot) and bring to a boil. Add a pinch of salt, cover and cook covered for about 10 minutes.
  3. Add frozen green beans previously rinsed with warm water and bring to a boil. Add homemade broth cube, mix and bring to a boil. Cook covered for about 5 minutes. Add kale and cook for one minute.
  4. At the end add chopped chives and season if needed. Serve for example with diced and pan-fried bacon.

Tips

Serving suggestion
150 g bacon, diced and browned in a pan
Tips
The soup can be cooked in meat broth, that is set 2 and 1/2 liters of water with meat such as 2 chicken thighs, salt and pepper cook for about an hour. Then continue adding lentils, potatoes etc... as in the recipe.

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