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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Soups => Topic started by: farfallina on April 17, 2012, 08:22:28 am

Title: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on April 17, 2012, 08:22:28 am

Farro Lentil Soup

Ingredients:
10g parsley leaves
40g onion, quartered
75g celery stalk, roughly chopped
60g carrot, roughly chopped
100g red pepper, roughly chopped
2 cloves of garlic
30g extra virgin olive oil
200g green lentils (to be weighed before rinsing)
1000gr boiling water
2 tsps Thermomix Meat or Vegetable Stock Concentrate
100g farro (spelt)

Preparation:
    Chop parsley for 5 seconds on Speed 7 and set aside.
    Chop onion, celery stalk, carrot, pepper and cloves of garlic by speeding Up and Down between 2 and 5 with short intervals until they are chopped as you desire.
    Add oil and cook for 4 minutes at 100°C on Reverse /  Speed 1.
    Add rinsed/drained lentils, Thermomix concentrate and boiling water. Cook for 10 minutes at 100°C on Reverse / Speed 1.
    Add farro and half of parsley. Cook for 30 minutes at 100°C on Reverse / Speed 1.
    Serve into serving bowls, sprinkle with the remaining parsley.


Photos: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.it/2012/04/farro-lentil-soup.html

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: dede on April 17, 2012, 08:41:58 am

Perfect time to be posting soup recipes as the weather is getting colder and colder. I wish my lot enjoyed soup more though :(
A nice hot soup with some crusty bread, yum yum. :)

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on April 17, 2012, 08:54:08 am

Here it starts getting warmer so I will be posting some icecream recipes soon. Do you think your lot would prefer those no matter what the temperature is over there? ;)

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: dede on April 17, 2012, 08:58:48 am

Yep you got it Farfallina ;)

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: judydawn on April 17, 2012, 12:43:47 pm

Ice-cream all year round here Farfallina.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on April 17, 2012, 04:06:25 pm

Good to know judy  ;)

Upon all your comments I decided to change my posting schedule and I will soon send an icecream recipe  :D

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Amy :-) on May 09, 2012, 12:55:42 am

Hi guys, just wondering if this soup would freeze well?

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: judydawn on May 09, 2012, 02:19:16 am

I can't see why not Amy, I have frozen all types of soups in the past.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Amy :-) on May 09, 2012, 06:12:11 am

Quote from: judydawn on May 09, 2012, 02:19:16 am

I can't see why not Amy, I have frozen all types of soups in the past.

Thanks JD :-*

You've probably realised by now that I don't have much experience with lentils or freezing, so I just wanted to check :)

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: judydawn on May 09, 2012, 09:00:43 am

You will learn something almost everyday on this forum Amy - it's a great source of information and you are doing the right thing by asking questions.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Amy :-) on May 10, 2012, 12:35:42 pm

I made this tonight! I had to make a few adaptions. I had no red pepper so I just used a bit extra of the other vegies, and I couldn't find farro in Woolworths so I used pearl barley instead.

It is ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!! You know JD, I don't think any is going to make it to the freezer... :-))

Thanks for the recipe farallina. This was my first time cooking lentils and it was fantastic :D

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on May 11, 2012, 08:00:13 am

I am happy you enjoyed it Amy ;)
I really like lentil soups
There are many in the forum
You can try them as well

Your photo looks delicious!
Thank you for sharing  :-*

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: droverjess on May 11, 2012, 10:15:43 pm

If farro is spelt I only have wholemeal spelt. Is farro whole spelt?
Thx

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on May 14, 2012, 03:00:19 pm

Hi Droverjess
I guess there is a confusion about what exactly farro is
You can see the farro article in wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farro).

I live in Italy so what farro is to me is what they sell here as farro
You can see the photo of the type of farro I used here (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RNxfiRbaP-4/Tno6EoWbwjI/AAAAAAAABO8/VMNpDBikETM/s1600/Farro_Spelt_KilciksizBugday.JPG)

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Amy :-) on May 15, 2012, 12:40:21 am

Oh, that looks a lot like pearl barley to me... Can someone clarify please? Pearl barley is what I had to substitute for the farro anyway, and it turned out really yum.

I had trouble finding farro because I have only ever seen it rolled for making porridge, so I wasn't sure what I was looking for.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: judydawn on May 15, 2012, 12:43:41 am

Had a look at this (http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Dictionary/F/Farro-4910.aspx) Amy and yes barley is a good substitute.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Amy :-) on May 15, 2012, 05:51:26 am

Thanks for the link JD :-* That website will be very helpful for me because I have been getting a bit confused with all the different grains, pulses, legumes, etc.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: Wonder on May 15, 2012, 07:08:21 am

Could I use red lentils in this? I've never cooked with lentils before so have no idea of the differences. On another post someone said to try the Morrocan lentil soup from EDC but I jsut haven't got around to it. It good soup weather in Melbourne at the moment so thought I might give one of these recipes a try and use up the lentils.

Title: Re: Farro Lentil Soup (with photo)
Post by: farfallina on May 15, 2012, 09:01:46 am

Yes, you can use red lentils instead green ones Wonder.
I hope you enjoy the soup.
I love lentils, it is said that they are also great for health.