Tomato and lentil soup with garlic croutons

Name: Tomato and lentil soup with garlic croutons | Asda Good Living
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 onion, diced; 2 carrots, diced; 1 sweet potato, diced; 2tbsp rapeseed oil; 2 sticks celery, diced; 5 cloves garlic, sliced; 2 reduced-salt veg stock cubes, made up to 1.5L; 400g tin chopped tomatoes; 150g dried red lentils, rinsed; 200g few-day-old bread, torn into pieces; 20ml single cream; Juice and zest ½ lemon; 20g basil leaves

This tasty, veg-packed broth has a hearty boost of red lentils

By Asda Good Living,29th January 2021

(3 votes)

Cook: 45 Mins

Serves: 4

Price: 61p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 586g serving contains

Energy
1863kj
445kcal

22%

Fat
8.8g

Med
13%

Saturates
1.2g

Low
6%

Sugars
15.2g

High
17%

Salt
0.76g

Med
13%

of your 5-a-day

of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
318kj/76kcal

Ingredients

1 onion, diced

2 carrots, diced

1 sweet potato, diced

2tbsp rapeseed oil

2 sticks celery, diced

5 cloves garlic, sliced

2 reduced-salt veg stock cubes, made up to 1.5L

400g tin chopped tomatoes

150g dried red lentils, rinsed

200g few-day-old bread, torn into pieces

20ml single cream

Juice and zest ½ lemon

20g basil leaves

Method

In a large pan, sweat the onion, carrots and sweet potato in 1tbsp of the oil for 10 mins, stirring often.

Add the celery and 1 clove sliced garlic then cook for 2 mins. Stir in the vegetable stock, tomatoes and lentils. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 20 mins or until the lentils are tender.

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Put the bread on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins until golden and crisp.

In a small frying pan, fry the remaining oil and garlic on low for 3 mins until starting to crisp. Set aside.

Remove the croutons from the oven, add the garlic oil and toss to coat.

Serve the soup drizzled with the cream and lemon juice, and topped with the lemon zest, basil leaves and croutons.