I made a delicious soup that I wasn't expecting to be all that good this past weekend. I found the recipe online on the Weight Watchers site. It was a crockpot soup (which I don't ordinarily love) and involved mostly just dumping cans and a 1/2 cup of dried red lentils into the crockpot, along with a bag of frozen mixed veggies, broth and spices.
Here are the details:
-2 1/2 cups of low sodium broth (I am still using exclusively Better Than Bullion Veg)
-2 (15oz) cans of chick peas, drained
-14.5oz can of diced tomatoes
-1/2 cup dried red lentils
-12 oz of frozen mixed veggies (I just used the most basic mix I could find- green beans, peas, carrots and maybe there was some corn in there too?)
-1 1/2 tsp Old Bay seasoning
-5 oz. fresh spinach
-Parm cheese for garnish/topping
Dump the canned chick peas (rinsed/drained), broth, tomatoes (I did not drain these), lentils and Old Bay into the crock pot. Mix together. Dump the bag of frozen veggies on top of the broth mixture and set crockpot to low for 7 hours. Add spinach at the very end or before serving and top with parm cheese (which I didn't even do).
So simple, right? This was so good that I bought the ingredients (needed more chick peas!) to make again this week. That said, I may force myself to take a bye week and do something else this week before repeating this.
Oh- I also added some chopped mushrooms to the broth mixture (because I had some that needed to be used up). I also added a bay leaf and some dried basil (but only because I was low on Old Bay so couldn't use the full amount called for in the recipe). I also think it would be good with some cabbage/slaw mix in the pot too- or really any veg you have lying around that you need to use!
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