Nourishing chicken and lentil soup recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

Ingredients

• 1 medium onion, finely sliced
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• 1-1.2kg chicken, jointed and skinned
• 1 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
• 120g pearl barley, rinsed
• 50g red lentils, rinsed
• 4 garlic cloves, bashed
• 1 thumb-size piece of root ginger, chopped into big chunks
• 1.5ltr light chicken stock, made using 2 stock pots or cubes
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• juice of 1 lemon
• handful of finely chopped flat-leaf parsley