Dinner · 40 min · 4 bowls
Yellow lentil and thyme soup
After Ärtsoppa
Thursday soup in Rutabagan. Lentils stand in for yellow peas. Ham if it is there.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min
easyWhy tonight. Thursday soup in Rutabagan. Lentils stand in for yellow peas. Ham if it is there.
What it needs
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- lentils
- onion
- thyme
- carrot
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ham.
Method
- Sweat the onion and carrot properly first, ten minutes, before any liquid touches the pot.
- Yellow lentils collapse completely, which is correct — this is a thick soup, not a brothy one.
- Thyme early since it is woody, and a ham hock or bacon in from the start if you have one.
- Vinegar or mustard at the end. A pot this soft and starchy needs a sharp edge or it reads as baby food.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- lentils
- The fast legume — no soaking, thirty minutes at most.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- thyme
- The most patient herb here — it survives long cooking, which almost nothing green does.
- carrot
- Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
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