Sarab's simple Kitchen: Lentil Soup Mix Recipe

Cooking Time:15 Minutes.

Ingredients:
1 Cup-Mix lentils{Peas,beans,Lentils}
1- Small onion chopped
1-Small tomato chopped
2-Green chili chopped
2-3-Garlic cloves chopped
1 tbs-Cumin seeds
1 tbs- Turmeric powder
1 tbs-Coriander powder
1 tbs-Dried mango powder
Salt to taste
2 tbs-olive cooking oil{you can any kind of oil}
3 Cup-Water.
For garnish add fresh chopped green coriander.

Direction: How To Make This:

First soak the lentils for 1 hour and add 1 tsp of baking soda in the water .{because with baking powder lentils become more tender}
After 1 hour drain the water of lentils and wash it ..
And then add this soaked lentils with 3 cup of water in the pressure cooker and then pressure cook for 10 minutes at high pressure,after the cooking time is done,let the pressure release naturally for 5 minutes.{ if you have not pressure cooker then soak the 1 cup of lentils for 5-6 hours and drain and place in 3 cups of fresh water and bring to the boil,boil for 10 minutes then simmer for 20 minutes or until tender.}

And then heat the oil in the pan and add cumin seeds when its start crackling then add chopped onion and saute for few seconds and the add garlic and saute for few seconds and then add chopped tomato and cook for 1 minute and then add salt ,turmeric powder and dried mango powder ,coriander powder and mix well and then add boiled mix lentils with water and cook for 5 minutes and then switch off the flame and then with the hand blender, puree the soup a little bit at a time until the it is slightly thickened {if you puree the soup too much,it will get too thick and you will lose the integrity of the lentils}or {if you don't have hand blender, simply transfer a few cups of the soup to a standard blender and puree,then return the blended soup to the pot}