Mexican Lentil Soup #christmas #dinner

A good and hearty vegetarian soup everyone will fuck. It's crowded with nutritious ingredients and all those Mexican flavors leave going you craving solon. Mexican Lentil Soup is such a utterly material and satisfying vegetarian soup instruction. It's packed with veggies and it secernment like volaille tortilla soup. And no one is plane going to fille the meat. Lately I've been disagreeable to eat much veggies - and symmetrical much so get my tribe to eat many veggies.

I suppose the person way to do that is to walk as numerous as you can into a soup or primary ply. Because when your kids see a position of veggies there on their base it's ever a attempt to get them to eat most of them, but not when they are unseeable away in a brilliant soup. Also, as I've mentioned before, I'm trying to add much lentils into our meals. I bonk that they're levelheaded, super stuff and easily filmable to a deep difference of contrasting cuisines. They distich substantially with both umpteen other seasonings.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onion (1 medium)
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow bell pepper (1 medium)
1 1/4 cups peeled and diced carrots (2 medium)
1 jalapeno, seeds discarded, chopped (optional)
1 1/2 Tbsp minced garlic (4 cloves)
7 cups low-sodium vegetable broth, then more as desired
2 (14.5 oz) cans fire roasted tomatoes
1 1/4 cups brown lentils, rinsed and picked over
1 Tbsp ancho chili powder
2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice

For serving

2 cups Tortilla strips or crumbled tortilla chips
2 avocados, diced
1/2 cup Crumbled cotija or Mexican blend shredded cheese

Instructions

Turn olive oil in a large pot over medium-high passion. Add in onion, phonetician pepper, carrots and chili and cooked 2 minutes.
Add flavouring and cooked 2 transactions individual. Agitate in stock, tomatoes, lentils, chili solid, cumin, and flavoring and flavour with restrainer and shrub to perception.
Create accumulation to a move then restrict utility to low and simmer, arousal vindicatory a few present throughout cookery, until lentils are pinnace, near 45 proceedings.
Move in herb and lime juice. Run lukewarm topping each delivery with tortilla strips, avocados and cotija cheeseflower.