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1 \u00bd tbsp olive oil
\n3 carrots, chopped
\n2 stalks celery, sliced
\n1 onion, chopped
\n<\/span>1 tsp veggie stock concentrate
\ngood squirt of tomato paste
\nchopped parsley
\nsalt and pepper
\n2 garlic cloves, minced
\n1\/2 tsp. dried thyme
\n1 bay leaf
\n1 28-ounce can whole tomatoes, with their juice
\n6\u00a0cups water
\n1.5 cup lentils, picked over and rinsed well
\n1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
\n2 potatoes, diced<\/span><\/p>\nIn a large pot or dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the carrots, celery, onion, 1 tsp. salt and \u00bc tsp. pepper. Cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, thyme, and bay leaf, and cook until vegetables begin to soften, 2 to 3 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\nAdd tomatoes with their liquid, breaking them up with a large spoon. Add the water and lentils and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, partially covered. Add potatoes about 30 min into the cooking time, cook until lentils are tender, about 45\u00a0minutes. Just before serving stir in the vinegar.<\/span><\/p>\nMy variations:<\/strong>\u00a0used 2 carrots for no particular reason, orange lentils as I like the color and balsamic vinegar as I didn’t have red wine vinegar.<\/span><\/p>\nServes 4 – 15 minutes prep time – total time 45 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\nNote cooking time for lentils can vary from 20 to 40 minutes depending on how fresh they are. The older they are the longer they take to cook.<\/span><\/p>\nVariations:<\/strong>\u00a0cooked dry pasta short such as elbow macaroni, or break up strands of spaghetti or linguine. Use about 2 \u00bd cups cooked pasta (1 c dried).<\/span><\/p>\nVery tasty and easy to fix, most ingredients usually on hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 \u00bd tbsp olive oil 3 carrots, chopped 2 stalks celery, sliced 1 onion, chopped 1 tsp veggie stock concentrate good squirt of tomato paste chopped parsley salt and pepper 2 garlic cloves, minced 1\/2 tsp. dried thyme 1 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,83],"tags":[67,184,517],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soup","category-vegetarian","category-veggies","tag-lentils","tag-martha-stewart","tag-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}