More Chicken Soup
Ingredients:
4 onions, sliced into thin half moons
4 T butter
4 cloves garlic, chopped up into small bits
1/2 C lentils
4 carrots, cut into a medium dice
1 t curry powder (I have no idea what is in this mix.)
1/2 t ginger powder
dash chili powder
2 or 3 C leftover chicken bits
water to cover
Salt to taste
Process:
Melt butter in pot, then toss with onions, turn heat to medium low, put on the lid and sweat onions until they are getting translucent and soft, 10 minutes or so. The heat should be low enough that the onions aren't browning, just getting soft. Add garlic, spices, carrots, and lentils, stir, replace lid, and cook for another 5 minutes or so. Add chicken and water, bring to a boil, turn heat down to low, and simmer covered until lentils are done, half an hour to 45 minutes. Salt to taste.
Mom just discards packaging for things like rice and lentils so I don't actually know how long the lentils were supposed to take to cook. If you have the packaging go by what that says.
The curry powder we have is not my favorite mix for flavor and old, but smells good. If you have the patience for it making your own mix is more likely to be pleasing for you. There's no one thing that is curry. It's a western invented word that's a catch all for a bunch of different spice mixes. Wikipedia can tell you all about it! So, anyway, if you have a mix you favor you don't need to add ginger and chili to it, and using a little more of it should taste good.
I ate this with bread and butter because I like bread and butter.
4 onions, sliced into thin half moons
4 T butter
4 cloves garlic, chopped up into small bits
1/2 C lentils
4 carrots, cut into a medium dice
1 t curry powder (I have no idea what is in this mix.)
1/2 t ginger powder
dash chili powder
2 or 3 C leftover chicken bits
water to cover
Salt to taste
Process:
Melt butter in pot, then toss with onions, turn heat to medium low, put on the lid and sweat onions until they are getting translucent and soft, 10 minutes or so. The heat should be low enough that the onions aren't browning, just getting soft. Add garlic, spices, carrots, and lentils, stir, replace lid, and cook for another 5 minutes or so. Add chicken and water, bring to a boil, turn heat down to low, and simmer covered until lentils are done, half an hour to 45 minutes. Salt to taste.
Mom just discards packaging for things like rice and lentils so I don't actually know how long the lentils were supposed to take to cook. If you have the packaging go by what that says.
The curry powder we have is not my favorite mix for flavor and old, but smells good. If you have the patience for it making your own mix is more likely to be pleasing for you. There's no one thing that is curry. It's a western invented word that's a catch all for a bunch of different spice mixes. Wikipedia can tell you all about it! So, anyway, if you have a mix you favor you don't need to add ginger and chili to it, and using a little more of it should taste good.
I ate this with bread and butter because I like bread and butter.