Best Creamy Lentil Soup Recipes

CREAMY LENTIL & SPINACH SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Put the oil, onions, carrots and celery in a large saucepan, and cook for about 10 mins to soften.
• Stir in the lentils and pour in the stock. Bring to the boil, then turn down and simmer for 30-35 mins or until the lentils are soft, topping up with water if the mixture begins to dry out. Pop in the spinach and cook for a few mins more, until wilted. Blitz the soup until smooth, then stir through the cream and season. Keep the soup warm over a low heat.
• Heat a little oil in a non-stick pan over a medium heat. Add the bacon and fry until crisp and golden. Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with a little cream and crumble over the crispy bacon.

CREAMY VEGETARIAN LENTIL-MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• In a saucepan, saute onions, mushrooms, garlic, and celery till just slightly browned, about 10 minutes.
• In a 3 1/2 or 4 quart crockpot, combine the lentils, carrots, onion, garlic, mushrooms, celery& parsley.
• Stir in water, mushroom soup, and bouillon.
• Cover; cook on low 10 to 12 hours or high 5 to 6 hours.
• Top each serving with a dollop of sour cream.
• 4 servings.

CREAMY PUMPKIN & LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pan. Fry the onions until softened and starting to turn golden. Stir in the garlic, pumpkin flesh, lentils and thyme, then pour in the hot stock. Season, cover and simmer for 20-25 mins until the lentils and vegetables are tender.
• Meanwhile, wash the pumpkin seeds. Remove any flesh still clinging to them, then dry them with kitchen paper. Heat the 1 tsp oil in a non-stick pan and fry the seeds until they start to jump and pop. Stir frequently, but cover the pan in between to keep them in it. When the seeds look nutty and toasted, add a sprinkling of salt and a pinch of sugar, and stir well.
• Whizz the cooked pumpkin mixture with a hand blender or in a food processor until smooth, then add the crème fraîche and whizz again. Taste for seasoning.
• Serve with a spoonful of crème fraîche, a few thyme leaves and the toasted seeds scattered on top.

CREAMY TOMATO AND LENTIL SLOW COOKER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a non stick pan. Cook onion over medium heat until golden. Add garlic and chilli and cook for about 1 minute.
• Place onion mix in slow cooker. Stir in tomatoes, stock, tomato paste, brown sugar and lentils.
• Cover with lid and cook on LOW 6-8 hours or HIGH 4 hours.
• Stir in cream 1/2 hour before end of cooking, replace lid and continue to cook.
• The orginal recipe says to ladle into bowls and top with 2 tsp sundried tomato pesto. Serve hot with crusty bread.

DAHL SOUP (NEPAL-STYLE CREAMY LENTIL SOUP)

Steps:

• 1. Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic, and sauté for about 6 minutes, stirring frequently, or until the onions are soft and starting to caramelize.
• 2. Add all remaining ingredients (except lemon and cilantro). Let the mixture almost reach a boil. Reduce heat, cover pot, and let simmer 20 to 30 minutes or until lentils are tender.
• 3. Remove pot from heat, and stir in 3/4 cup of the cilantro. Squeeze lemon halves into the pot, and stir. Ladle into serving bowls, and garnish each serving with remaining cilantro, and serve immediately.

COMPLEX AND CREAMY LENTIL & BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Chop onion and garlic finely. Saute -medium heat- in olive oil for 5 minutes. If it starts to burn, sprinkle some water.
• Add the cumin to the onion. Saute for 2 more minutes.
• Apart, in a deep pan, put the lentils with the water and bring to boil. Boil vigorously for 10 minutes.
• Whilst the lentils are boiling, add the tomatoes to the onion sauce. Bring the heat to low and simmer for 7 to 10 minutes.
• Add the basil, thyme, paprika, cloves and pepper to the sauce.
• Meanwhile, dice the beetroot, potato and carrot.
• When the 10 minutes of the boiling lentils have concluded, add the remaining vegetables. Bring the heat low to simmer.
• Add the sauce to the lentils.
• Add the cube of chicken stock.
• Simmer for 20 minutes.
• Turn the heat off and blend. If the blender is too full you can do it in two batches. Remember: is a hot soup, so it will tend to be explosive in the blender.
• Bring back to the pan.
• If the cream is too thick, add more water to make the soup the desired consistency.
• Chop the bacon in pieces.
• In a pan, fry it without oil until golden/brown.
• When serving the soup, add the pieces of bacon to every dish. Stir them inches
• Sprinkle each dish with a tablespoon of doublecream.
• Voilá!

CREAMY SPLIT PEA & LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Cook your peas and lentils, in the water and broth in a large pot over medium heat for 90 minutes to two hours, or until soft. Do not drain. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside.
• In a saute pan, heat the oil. When heated, saute the onion, carrot, and celery with the bay leaves until soft. Make sure you remove the bay leaves.
• Puree the vegetables in a blender until smooth. Move to a large pot. Puree the peas and lentils in batches in the blender until smooth. Add that to the vegetable puree, and cook over medium low heat until warm. Serve in bowls.
• Enjoy!

SLOW-COOKER CREAMY LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in medium skillet on medium heat. Add onions; cook 8 min. or until tender, stirring frequently. Add to slow cooker.
• Stir in all remaining ingredients except cream cheese; cover with lid. Cook on LOW 7 to 8 hours (or on HIGH 3 to 4 hours) until lentils are tender.
• Add cream cheese; whisk until cream cheese is completely melted and soup is well blended.

CREAMY ACORN SQUASH AND LENTIL SOUP (VEGAN)

Steps:

• Warm the oil in a soup pot/dutch oven. Add in the onions and allow them to cook over medium heat until translucent (about 5-7 minutes).
• Add in the acorn squash, let that cook together for a few minutes along with the sage.
• Add in the broth followed by the lentils; stir well and bring to a boil.
• Once boiling, bring back down to medium heat, cover and allow to simmer for about 20 minutes, until the squash is soft.
• With the squash nicely cooked and the lentils cooked and starting to break up on their own, turn the heat off and blend until smooth (either in batches using a blender, or using an immersion blender).
• Garnish with some fresh chives, chopped or in a few long sprigs. A dollop of something creamy would be great as garnish too.

CREAMY LENTIL BACON-TOPPED SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a Dutch oven over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, reserving drippings in pan. Crumble bacon; set aside. Ad leek and onion to pan; saute 4 minutes. Add broth, potato, lentils, carrot, and salt; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 1 hour or until vegetables are tender. Place vegetable mixture in blender or food processor; process until smooth. Return pureed mixture to pan; stir in half and half and sherry. Cook until thoroughly heated. Sprinkle with bacon.

CREAMY VEGAN LENTIL TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium high heat.
• Add onion and cook, stirring frequently for 3-4 minutes.
• Add garlic, cumin, chili powder and chiles in adobo and cook, stirring frequently for another minute.
• Add black beans, corn, lentils, tomatoes, V8, and coconut milk along with a few large pinches of salt and pepper. Stir to combine.
• Cover the pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
• Reduce heat to medium low and simmer, covered, for about 5 minutes or until the lentils are cooked through.
• Add the juice of 1 lime and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Garnish and enjoy!

SLOW COOKER CREAMY LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Coat a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Place broth and next 8 ingredients (through garlic) in slow cooker; stir well. Cover and cook on Low 7 hours.
• Process chickpeas, 3/4 cup water, oil, and lemon juice in a blender until smooth. Add chickpea mixture and kale to slow cooker; stir well. Cover and cook on low 30 minutes. Stir in vinegar

CREAMY COCONUT LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Process the carrots, garlic, ginger and shallots in a food processor until finely chopped. Saute the mixture for 5-7 minutes in coconut oil. Add lentils and stock and bring to a boil. Cook for 20-30 minutes or until mixture is thickened and lentils are tender. Add coconut milk, brown sugar and spinach or kale and cook until spinach or kale is wilted. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add lime juice just before serving.

CREAMY LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a dutch oven over medium heat.
• Add next 3 ingredients; saute 3 minutes.
• Add cumin and curry powder; cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
• Add lentils and next 3 ingredients; stir well, and bring to a boil.
• Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 45 minutes or until lentils are tender, stirring occasionally.
• Spoon one-third of mixture into container of an electric blender or food processor; cover and process until smooth.
• Spoon into a large bowl.
• Repeat procedure with remaining lentil mixture.
• Return mixture to pan; cook over medium heat until heated.
• Ladle into soup bowls; top with yogurt.

CREAMY RED LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Put all ingredients in crock pot except cumin & cinnamon. Cook for 8-10 hours. Add cumin & cinnamon. Use immersion blender to make the soup smooth. I did this while the soup was in the crock pot so that it wouldn't cool off. You can blend it as smooth or a chunky as you like.

CREAMY LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Rinse lentils and rice in warm water and set aside. In a large heavy pot, heat oil on a medium-high heat. Add onions, leeks and bay leaf and saute for 3-5 minutes, then add carrots, tumeric, curry powder, cumin, salt and pepper and saute for a few minutes. Then add the rice and lentils, stir all ingredients and add water. Allow to come to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and let cook, stirring every 10 minutes, for about 30 minutes. Add lemon juice, and more water if soup is very thick. Allow to cool a little bit and then with a hand-held blender, puree the soup until smooth and creamy. Ladle soup in plates, garnish with parsley and some more cumin and lemon juice if desired. Serve hot.