The Cheap And Easy Soup I Make Every Week In The Fall
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Today we’re making Italian lentil soup. This is such a simple and comforting soup to make. As always, we recommend saving …
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There are many ways to make a great pot of lentil soup. You could start with some pancetta or Italian sausage. Or make a completely vegetarian or vegan version. The choice is yours. I usually add the good extra virgin and lots of grated cheese for finishing. As I always say, "Make it your own!". The written recipe is always linked in the description (it's the little "arrow" on mobile and a "show more" on desktop). In the description, you will also find my shop and other links with cookware/ingredients and all the other things you guys frequently ask about. Thanks as always for liking my videos!
Love it!! Very nice family. Good Italian recipes don't require a bazillion different spices. It really is about the ingredients and letting them shine together. Making this this weekend! Thank you for sharing!
I will definitely try this. Thanks for the simple recipe. Love lentils
Yes Jim, that is a really nice shirt 😊
Good job with the panel hehe.
Even though here in Greece, most people add either Greek yogurt, feta or goat cheese on their lentil soup, I'm more like you, little bit of Grana Padano, a glob of olive oil and some bread!
That soup looks wonderful! It's much the way I make lentil soup except I use red lentils, which I suppose is a major difference in texture. And yes, cheese and crusty bread with it for sure.
looks simple but delicious! definitely gonna make this!
Not all dishes need to have loads of different spices to taste good. Sometimes putting too many can ruin it. I want to taste the ingredients and the spices are supposed to elevate the dish but not overpower it. I've had meals that punched you in the face with spices and it ruined the dish. Some of the best dishes only have a few in them. I use them when needed, but they aren't needed all the time.
I love ur son's ratings! Although his palate is very developed for someone his age + good parenting!
things I'd do to be your son I mean the things I'd do to not have to make my own food I mean I want to eat the food I mean I am hungry I mean
What size Dutch oven is that?
When you said that sometimes we do something because our parents or grandparents did made me smile. I read a story once where a newlywed cut off the end of the pork loin before putting in the pan to cook. Her husband asked why and she said her mom did it that way. So she called her mom and asked why and she said HER mom did it that way. So they called the grandma and she said-I didn't have a big enough pan so I always cut the end off and used it later. 🙂
The foundation of Italian food is minimal quality ingredients. Keep it simple!
Came across your channel a couple months ago. Really enjoy it. Your food is great! Keep adding your family to the videos. Very nice touch.
Pro-tip. Cut the cheese into as thin as you can slice so it melts into your food.
Why waste it?
I love lentil soup. Basic, hearty, healthy, yummy.
Great soup! Easy and simple.
Great taste, love the olive oil and Parmesan .
Give you a 9.5!
Enzo Giacomino
Great family memories being made. Nicely done 😊
I don't know how true this is, but I've been told that cooking the tomato paste like that helps bring out the natural sugars in the paste to give it a slightly sweeter, deeper flavor.
Looks like a great autumn soup. Just my 2 cents – I'd ignore the TikTok comments and focus on delivering content you enjoy making and that core viewers like watching until the end.
Love, love, love your channel. Enjoy your videos, clear and easy to follow. Like how you do your taste tests with you family at the end. Italian-American, grew up in Brooklyn. Always a garden in the backyard, fresh basil and fig trees, among other things. So many figs that we turned our nose up to them. 40 yrs. in rural VT and I will pay just about anything for a pint container of figs on the rare occasion I run across them! And a bakery a couple of blocks away with that delicious, fresh Italian bread. That’s one thing I really miss as it is unheard of here 😢. Have made several of your recipes since recently discovering your channel and they have all been delicious and wonderfully nostalgic. Made your chicken fracases a couple weeks ago, which was a new one for me and it turned out quite nice. And I think you use just the right amount of spices. Goodness, it’s Italian peasant food (and it’s Italian-American variations)! My mother and grandmother had a very basic set of spices in their cupboard. It is the ingredients that make the dish. The spices are there just to subtly enhance it. Thanks for the great recipes. I’ve copied off several from your website 👍.
Trying this recipe tonight – thank you for this yummy dish. I love the taste testing at the end of the video, too.
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Another great recipe! Don’t change a thing! You let the food speak for itself and that’s why your channel is so wonderful. Thank you Sir 😊❤
I made this today because I had leftover celery, carrots and tomato paste from making braised short ribs the other day. I figured it was a good way to use up these extra ingredients I had.
I used French green lentils since that’s what I had in my panty.
Absolutely delicious!! My husband said it was the best lentil soup I ever made.
I grew up on lentil soup (I'm also of Italian origin) and have been wanting to make it again for my family for some time. Recently my girlfriend bought me a dry mix package of dry "Sicilian" lentil soup mix, and while it wasn't bad, it wasn't homemade. Your version looks great, love the spinach, I add spinach to all my soups. Going to try this as soon as it cools down, I live in so Cal, so I'll need to wait a few more weeks. BTW, your version looked the best! Love your channel.
we made similar ("minestrone" but honestly very similar) soup the other day, i did have basil in there as a spice but no baby spinach. If I were to add baby spinach, I would skip the basil. This recipe is good, I will try it next time with the lentils and baby spinach, looks really good.
I make a version that's very close to this. The only difference is that I substitute kale for spinach and add canned quartered artichokes.
Sorry, I like YOUR way best – not even a contest. LOL James approved. To be honest, I really cannot eat spice much and don't like it too much either. I occasionally like something that will add a burst of flavor or a new flavor, but I am not of the mind to add spice just to add it or just because everyone else puts it in EVERYTHING. You have a very wide and far-ranging flavor profile, and that is why I enjoy your dishes. Once in awhile, I will veer off a bit from what you suggest to my liking, but whatever commenters!
Wow, that’s a good looking and hearty soup. Reminds me of our own version. Being a predominantly Catholic country we had a version of this every Friday growing up. We used a soffrito of onions, garlic and tomatoes. We used shrimp paste and/or dried shrimp for flavoring. Sometimes we used flaked smoke fish too. Instead of lentils we used mung beans. Then to finish it if we used instead of spinach moringga or chili pepper leaves. Thanks for this video!😊
The weather here is screaming "Make Soup!" I'm going with the guy who has yet to let me down. Can't wait to try this. Your recipes are always on point and you make success look easy. I made your chicken stew for game night on Tuesday and couldn't believe the rave reviews.
Cannot wait to make this when it starts getting colder. Also love seeing your family enjoy your cooking! Keep up the great work!
Another great one. Swapped the spinach for kale out of the garden. Killer
This soup looks incredible! And don't apologize for your content… I can say for me and for thousands of people, your videos and recipes are a go-to for inspiration and step-by-step help! Thank you Jim and your family! You all have become a household favorite of ours!! Love from Maryland!
My girlfriends Lentil soup has a ham bone in it.
I love what you’re doing and I love the simplicity of the recipes! Keep ‘em coming!!
One of these days, it might be fun to have you illustrate how close your eyeball measurements are to the real thing.
I'm with him. Oil & parmesan & crusty bread. Mmmm
I would definitely use chicken stock and instead of yogurt, sour cream is a good topper
I enjoy the taste testers. I will make it!
I grew up with the Progresso canned Lentil soup, which I still bought up to this point, but now that I have been storing lentils as a source of protein and have a nice 4 qt. dutch oven, I WILL be making this soup when the cold weather finally sets in and I am looking for nutritious comfort food. I'll bet escarole or kale would be good in this too if you can't get spinach or napa, even savoy cabbage. I live in Alaska so nice baby spinach is sometimes hard to get, especially in the winter so I am always looking for healthy alternatives.
I just love your channel
What a lovely family you have- I make mine the same as you except I purée a couple cups of it to give it a creamy background ❤️