Winter Lentil Soup | Recipe Binder

Ingredients

• 2 Tb spoons olive oil
• 1 large onion finely diced
• 1 carrot peels and finely chopped
• 1/4 cup tomato paste
• 2 large cloves of garlic crushed
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 120g smoked kransky or chorizo sausage diced
• 2 1/2 Lt good chicken stock (if you buy the liquid stock from the supermarket you can get away with just 1 Lt and the rest water as they can be quite salty)
• 2- 400g cans crushed tomatoes
• 2 ups washed brown lentils (make sure they aren’t heat treated)
• 2 bay leaves
• salt pepper to taste
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• chopped coriander