Recipe: Perfect Smoked green lentil soup

Smoked green lentil soup.

You can have Smoked green lentil soup using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Smoked green lentil soup

1. It's 1 of pd of dry green lentils.
2. It's 6-8 cups of water.
3. It's 4 slices of bacon.
4. Prepare 1 of medium onion minced.
5. It's 4 of large garlic cloves minced.
6. Prepare 2 of carrots minced.
7. You need 1 of celery minced.
8. Prepare 1 of jalapeno minced.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of cumin.
10. Prepare 2 tsp of liquid smoke.
11. Prepare to taste of Salt.
12. It's to taste of Pepper.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of smoked paprika.
14. You need 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of thyme.
16. Prepare 3 of bay leaf.
17. Prepare 1 tbsp of chicken bullion.

Smoked green lentil soup instructions

1. Chop bacon into 1/2 inch pieces and saute until golden brown. Reserve 1/2 cup of onion from what you have already minced and set aside. Add remaining onion, carrots, celery and jalapeno to pot with bacon and grease and cook until translucent..
2. Grind the half cup of onion and 4 garlic to make a paste and add it to vegetables, saute for another two minutes..
3. Add water and seasonings. Cover and bring to a boil, then reduce and let simmer for 30 to 45 minutes..
4. Garnish with feta cheese, fresh tomatoes, peperoncini pepper and dill weed.