Red Lentil Soup (Kırmızı Mercimek Çorbası)

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for the soup:
one loving cup crimson lentils
one medium size onion
one carrot
one tbsp love apple tree or pepper glue (or you lot tin laissez passer on notice create half&half)
one tsp salt
one tsp crushed pepper or crimson peppercorns
vi cups of water

for the sauce:
2 tbsp olive crude oil or butter
one tbsp sweetness or spicy paprika

-With a pressure level cooker: Put everything (onion too carrot coarsley chopped) for the soup inwards the pressure level cooker too ready on medium for xv minutes too and hence smoothen the soup amongst a blender
-With a regular pot: Put everything for the soup inwards a big pot too ready on medium oestrus until the lentils are soft too mushy, for virtually 20-25 minutes. Smoothen it amongst a blender.
-If you lot don't convey a manus blender or if you lot desire to convey a chunky soup, chop the onion finely too grate the carrot earlier you lot ready them.
-Previous 2 are, inwards a way, healthier ways of making this soup. If you lot desire to crusade the tastier way, sautee the onion amongst one tbsp crude oil for 3-4 minutes. Add the glue too ready for a brace of minutes, too add together the residual of the soup ingredients. From this indicate on, everything volition move the same. Sauteed onion too glue volition brand quite a difference, though.
-Before serving the soup, oestrus the crude oil inwards a skillet too when it's hot add together the paprika. Stir for 5-10 seconds. Pour a brace of scoops of the oil+paprika sauce on the soup bowl.
-Squeeze a trivial chip of lemon juice on top.

optional: sprinkle parsley on top

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