{"id":336,"date":"2012-02-19T02:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2012-03-22T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:43:13","slug":"my-magical-lentils-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2012\/02\/my-magical-lentils-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"My Magical Red Lentils Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/soup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-338\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Oren's magical Red Lentil Soup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/soup-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/soup-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/soup.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A recipe, for a change: it's super tasty, it doesn't involve killing animals (advantage if you're an animal or vegeterian), and it's full of nutrition goodies - equivalent to a whole meal:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proteins (lentils)<\/li>\n<li>Carbohydrates (pearl barley, lentils, sweet potato)<\/li>\n<li>Dietary fiber and vitamins (mix of vegetables)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<p>for a large pot (Serves 10); use half for a small pot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups of red lentils<\/li>\n<li>~1\/4 cup pearl barley<\/li>\n<li>2 chopped medium onions<\/li>\n<li>6 chopped garlic cloves<\/li>\n<li>Roughly-chopped celery leaves and\/or stalks<\/li>\n<li>Vegetables - all peeled and cubed (medium size):<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>1 celery root<\/li>\n<li>1 medium-sized sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>3 medium-sized carrots<\/li>\n<li>2 small-sized root parsley<\/li>\n<li>1 zucchini<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>spices:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tsp ground cumin<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp ground turmeric<\/li>\n<li>salt &amp; ground black pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>1 tbsp canola oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Instructions:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Saut\u00c3\u00a9 the chopped onions in the oil until it gets transparent or brownish (don't let it burn though), ~10 mins. No need to use a pan, do all the cooking in a single pot.<\/li>\n<li>Add the chopped garlic, cumin, turmeric and cubed carrots and saut\u00c3\u00a9 for ~2 mins to avoid burning the garlic.<\/li>\n<li>Add the pearl barley and a few cups of water and boil it. Lower the heat after it boils. Add the vegetables. Leave for ~30 mins to make sure the pearl barley is softened.<\/li>\n<li>Add the red lentils and a few more cups of water. Add the celery leaves, salt and black pepper to your taste. Cook for ~15 mins, until the lentils and pearl barley are soft.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>During the cooking, adjust amount of water to the desired thickness level. Usually the soup gets slightly thicker after it cools.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recipe, for a change: it&#8217;s super tasty, it doesn&#8217;t involve killing animals (advantage if you&#8217;re an animal or vegeterian), and it&#8217;s full of nutrition goodies &#8211; equivalent to a whole meal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176],"tags":[204,179,177,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}