Aaron Bertelsen's oven-baked lentil soup with greens - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food Aaron Bertelsen’ s oven-baked lentil soup with greens By You Magazine - February 2, 2020 My dear friend Linda Smith lives in Memphis, where she has the most wonderful farm filled with hummingbirds. This oven-baked lentil soup is one of hers. I often make a big batch then eat it for lunch throughout the week; the flavours deepen the longer it is left. I am always adding different things to it depending on my mood and the season – kale, swiss chard or even parsley (stems and all) are all great additions. I sometimes pop in a few skinless chicken thighs too. By the time the soup is cooked the meat will be soft enough to eat with a spoon and the bones will have added lots of flavour. Andrew Montgomery SERVES 6-8 PREP TIME 10 minutes COOK TIME 1 hour 2 litres chicken stock (or vegetable stock, if preferred) 225g dried yellow split peas 225g dried green or brown lentils 4 carrots (about 450g), scrubbed, trimmed and chopped into 2.5cm pieces 4 celery stalks, chopped into 2.5cm pieces 1 leek, trimmed and chopped into 2.5cm pieces 2 bay leaves 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper large bunch seasonal greens (about 250g), stripped from any large stems, then sliced chopped herbs, to garnish 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. 2. Put the stock, dried peas, lentils, vegetables, bay leaves, cumin, salt and pepper into a large heavy casserole dish and stir to combine. Cover and bake in the oven for 1 hour, or until the peas and lentils are tender. 3. Remove from the oven and fish out and discard the bay leaves. Stir through the seasonal greens until wilted. 4. Just before serving, garnish with the chopped herbs, then ladle the oven-baked lentil soup into warmed soup plates and serve with bread and butter, if desired. Growing carrots A lady who came to one of my vegetable talks first told me about growing carrots in pots. She did it to outwit the carrot fly which operates at ground level. It works brilliantly. Another great advantage with container growing is that you can tailor the environment to the crop. Carrots like gritty soil, so I add some sharp sand to the mix – about one part sand to ten parts compost. Tall, narrow long-tom pots (specially suited for deep-rooted plants) are ideal and placing them closer to the house will mean that your carrots are less exposed to the elements. You can also protect them more easily on cold nights with a bit of hessian to stop the soil freezing, and they will be easier to harvest. Buy Aaron’ s fabulous new book with a 20 per cent discount Grow Fruit and Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice and Recipes from Great Dixter will be published by Phaidon Press Ltd on 7 February, price £24.95. To order a copy for £19.95 with free p&p until 2 March call 01603 648155 or go to mailshop.co.uk. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food Gabriela Peacock 14-day plan Anytime baked eggs May 23, 2021 Joe Wicks’ maple-glazed chicken thighs with Asian slaw June 6, 2021 Mary Berry is returning to TV screens for a brand new June 15, 2021 Eleanor Maidment My summer taste notes July 4, 2021 Uyen Luu’ s sticky mustard marmalade ribs July 25, 2021 Annie Bell’ s white peach bellinis recipe August 8, 2021 M& S has launched a new crunchy Caramilk-inspired golden chocolate spread August 24, 2021 Deliciously preserved pickle and jam recipes September 19, 2021 Gordon Ramsay’ s bang bang cauliflower October 3, 2021 Wow right now Clodagh McKenna’ s speedy family dinners October 24, 2021 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved