Adas

Name: Adas
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Soudan
Ingredients: 240 g dry red lentils; 1.2 litres drinking water, plus a little if needed; 3 finely chopped garlic cloves; 20 ml sunflower oil; 1 tsp ground cumin; 30 ml lime juice; Up to 2 g salt; A pinch of black pepper

🥣 Four starter bowls of smooth red lentil soup with cumin, golden garlic and lime; no meat stock.

Ingredients

240 g dry red lentils
1.2 litres drinking water, plus a little if needed
3 finely chopped garlic cloves
20 ml sunflower oil
1 tsp ground cumin
30 ml lime juice
Up to 2 g salt
A pinch of black pepper

Preparation

Sort and rinse lentils. Put in a pan with 1.2 litres water.

Bring to boil, reduce and simmer 25–30 minutes, stirring bottom, until lentils break down.

Blend carefully off heat with immersed hand blender. Add cumin, pepper and some salt; loosen with hot water if needed.

Heat oil in a small pan and fry garlic 1–2 minutes until lightly golden, never dark.

Stir garlic and oil into soup; simmer three more minutes.

Add lime juice, adjust seasoning and divide into four bowls. Optional bread excluded.