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Turmeric Lentil Soup recipe. Healthy, and if you’re tight on time, easy enough for a weeknight dinner. And delicious enough that the whole family will rave. With carrots, fragrant cumin and warming turmeric. A crunchy topping sends this one over the top.

Healthy Turmeric Lentil Soup Recipe. Absolutely delicious and easy dinner idea.

Easy Lentil Soup, Simple Ingredients

I’ve had this soup recipe for years, and what I love about it is that it combines the simplest of ingredients and renders it into hearty, filling and unbelievably healthy dish. And blows your expectations of lentils right out of the water. This soup also highlights the prowess of the almighty cumin seed. Lightly toasted, the aromas will find you leaning over the pan to take it all in.

It’s not all meat and potatoes here on the Ranch, I have to admit I’m somewhat of a cumin, curry, turmeric junkie. And beside the fact that they’re loaded with flavor, from what I read, they all come with health benefits. Did you know that turmeric is ingredient that gives curry it’s yellow color?

For now let’s take a look at this soup that highlights cumin seeds and turmeric.

Turmeric Lentil Soup Recipe. Delicious, easy dinner idea and healthy. Healthy Soup Recipe.

This easy to prepare. Once you’ve diced and chopped the rest is a breeze. Then grab your immersion blender and puree. Top with some onion rings, serve a side of your favorite fresh green garden salad, a chunk of crusty bread and you’ve got a great dinner.

The vibrant color comes from a combination of the red lentils, carrots and turmeric.  Beautiful to look at and loaded with flavor, I recommend you give it a try.

Recipe for Spicy Turmeric Lentil Soup

I hope you give this recipe for Turmeric Lentil Soup a try. And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating.

Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite lentil soup recipe or a soup recipe using turmeric, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.

More Easy Healthy Soup Recipes

And if you’re a fan of soups like we are, don’t miss my Soup Category. You’ll find tons of slurp worthy recipes. And the most popular soup recipe on my site, Anthony Bourdain’s New Mexico Chili Recipe.

Turmeric Lentil Soup Recipe. Delicious, easy dinner idea and healthy. Healthy Soup Recipe.
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Spicy Turmeric Lentil Soup
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
55 mins
 

If you’re tight on time, this is easy enough for a weeknight dinner and delicious enough that the whole family will rave. With carrots, fragrant cumin and warming turmeric, a crunchy topping sends this one over the top.

Course: Soup
Servings: 6
Calories: 235 kcal
Author: Highlands Ranch Foodie
Ingredients
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seed
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 stalks celery sliced
  • 2 medium carrots sliced
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 6 ounces split red lentils washed
  • 5 cups chicken stock
  • 2 bay leaf
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Canned or frozen fried onion rings for garnish. Or frozen onion rings cooked according to package instructions.
Instructions
  1. Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add cumin seeds. When seeds begin to pop, add onion and cook until golden.
  2. Add garlic, carrots and celery and cook gently 10 minutes. Stir in all spices and cook 1 minute, then add lentils.
  3. Pour in stock. Add bay leaf and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Process the soup to a puree. Season with salt and pepper. Gently reheat.
  4. Garnish with fried onion rings.
Nutrition Facts
Spicy Turmeric Lentil Soup
Amount Per Serving
Calories 235 Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Cholesterol 6mg2%
Sodium 307mg13%
Potassium 587mg17%
Carbohydrates 29g10%
Fiber 10g42%
Sugar 6g7%
Protein 13g26%
Vitamin A 3455IU69%
Vitamin C 4.5mg5%
Calcium 40mg4%
Iron 3.1mg17%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

I used those canned onion bits from Whole Foods, because they were in the pantry left over from a mandatory Thanksgiving recipe for Green Bean casserole that I forgot to make. Wouldn’t this be beautiful with real live, real deal fried onion rings on top? Yum.

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  2. Vickie says

    March 6, 2010 at 6:16 am

    MAN this sounds good – I love toasting cumin seeds for soup. I’m definitely going to try this. Do you think brown lentils would taste okay in this? (I’m trying to avoid a trip to town) I can’t wait to try it. I don’t have any canned onion rings, but I’ll bet I can fry a few beer battered rings for my garnish. Thanks for sharing! (pretty shot of the soup!)

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    • leaannbrown says

      March 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm

      With all the flavors packed into this soup, I doubt the lentils actually add much to the overall flavor.  I’d say use the brown.  I think for the first time in my entire cooking life I was out of onions.  I really wish I would have had a real onion ring for that photo.  Hope you enjoy it.

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    • leaannbrown says

      March 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm

      I love my job, and not complaining about being busy, but when it interferes with blogging?!?!?  That’s when I put my foot down.  As always, thanks for stopping by Chris

      Reply

  7. Kitchen Butterfly says

    March 6, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    Simple, wholesome…delish. Beta carotene, healthy, nutritious, fragrant….I’m doing the blah blah for you!

    Reply

  13. Velva says

    March 7, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Your post made me smile. There are plenty of days that I have no “blah, blah” left in me. You posted a great lentil soup recipe.

    Reply

  16. gwen@SimplyHealthyFamily says

    September 28, 2010 at 12:17 am

    I’ve been looking for a wonderful lentil soup recipe and I’ve definatly found it! Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to try!
    P.S. What is souper sundays?

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