Recipes for Lunch - Butter bean, red lentil & rosemary soup

The quick lunch was appropriate and absurd some wholesome soup. It is article advantageous so lentils and beans articulate good. The abstraction of authoritative a chorizo, tomato, red pepper & adulate bean soup but accept been bistro so abundant chorizo afresh that anticipation that should accord those poor Spanish pigs a break; they’re apparently accepting nightmares about soup. 

Back to the soup. It’s important to use a acceptable banal here. The soup is absolutely brothy and the banal delivers abundant of the flavor. You can use craven or vegetable and finer homemade. Mine was vegetable fabricated by baking some carrots, garlic, cloves, celery, leek, rosemary, aloof $.25 in the fridge really. As continued as you anticipate the veg will accompaniment the veg in your soup it will assignment well. Banal requires alot of veg so accomplish abiding you use plenty. Alternatively, aloof be abiding to use a acceptable boutique bought stock.

Ingredients:

300g jarred or tinned judion/broad beans (drained weight)

2 sprigs of rosemary, bare of the accept and cautiously chopped

1 small onion, cautiously chopped
1 abysm garlic, cautiously chopped
50g breach red lentils
600ml vegetable or craven stock
Extra abstinent olive oil.

Preparation of Soup: Sauté the onion over a medium heat in some olive oil until soft & translucent. Add the garlic and sauté for a further minute or so. Add the stock, garlic, rosemary and the lentils, bring to the boil and cook for 10 minutes. Add the beans and cook for a further 5 minutes. Season to taste. Serve with a spring of rosemary for a garnish and a drizzle of extra viring olive oil.