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title: "Sopa de Lentejas"
date: 2021-03-21
tags: ['spanish']
author: nacchofer31
---

![Lentejas](/pix/lentejas.webp)

Traditional-spanish dish. Typical spanish!

- ⏲️ Prep time: 5 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 35 min
- 🍽️ Servings: 4-6

## Ingredients

- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 cup dry brown lentils, soaked overnight and drained
- 2 plum tomatoes, chopped
- 2 cups water, or as needed
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 tsp of paprika
- 1/4 spicy chorizo (optional)

## Directions

1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.
2. Add the onion, carrot, and bell pepper; cook and stir until vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
3. Stir in the garlic, tomatoes, chorizo and bay leaf; cook about 4 minutes.
4. Add lentils and water (water should be about an inch deeper than the level of the lentils).
5. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer, uncovered, until lentils are just cooked, 15 to 20 minutes.
