Carrot, celery, and Lentil Soup

After a few sweet ones I thought I’d do a healthy savoury; carrot, celery, and lentil soup.  It’s low calorie and fat but the lentils add protein which so many veggie soups exclude.

• 8 Carrots
• 3 Sticks of celery
• 1 Onion
• 50g Red Lentils (If you substitute a different type of lentil check it doesn’t need to be soaked first)
• Pinch of Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Mild Curry Powder
• 2 tbsp Single Cream
• 1 tbsp Oil

 

1. Dice the onion, roughly chop 6 carrots and finely dice the other 2, chop the celery, and weigh out the other ingredients.  Make up the stock.
2. Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion, cinnamon and curry powder. Fry for 5-10mins until the onion is soft.
3. Add the roughly chopped carrots and stock, bring to boil and simmer for 20mins.
4. Blend until smooth.
5. Return to the heat and the lentils, diced carrots and celery.  Simmer for another 20mins.
6. Add the cream and simmer for another 5mins.

I also added a tiny bit of the cream to my bowl before eating.  I liked the soup and it was quite filling (these quantities make about 4 bowlfulls) but it probably needed more curry powder and cinnamon to add some oomf.

How to Make Healthy Vegetarian Celery Soup

So if you were wondering what to do with celery here’s my answer: celery soup!  It’s really healthy and vegetarian which is how I roll.  I also like recipes where all the ingredients are things you can eat raw without dying!*

 

• 150g chopped celery
• chopped clove of garlic (fyi a bulb is the full thing, a clove is one of the little wedges inside)
• chopped onion
• 200ml veg stock
• oil
• single cream for garnish

This is a really quick and simple recipe.

1. Heat the oil in a saucepan and add the celery, garlic, onion, and fry on a low heat.
2. Cook for about 5mins to soften.
3. Make the veg stock and pour into the saucepan.
4. Pour everything in a blender and blitz.
5. Pour into a bowl and add a splash of single cream

That’s it.

I said this was a healthy recipe and it’s certainly low calorie; 150g of celery has about 15 calories in it!  But that’s obvs not enough to live on and it contains no carbs or protein to speak of.  I suggest doing what I did which is having the soup with cheese on toast to make it more substantial.  Or have the soup for starter (in which case I would halve the quantity).

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*I tried food poisoning once and I don’t recommend it!  I also don’t recommend drinking the tap water in Venice!