Curried Red Lentil Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Greens

[secondbase]

oh my goodness. this looks incredible!

[laurosaur]

This was indeed incredible. So flavorful (and colorful), I ate it for three lunches straight and froze the other half because I needed to eat other foods in my fridge before they went bad. Pretty easy to do, to. I used swiss chard (I like the texture it has more than wimpy cooked spinach), and I accidentally left out the lemon or lime juice, but it was still fantastic.

yum yum yum. thank you!

[veginbythebay]

I made this tonight, along with two other Thai soups.  Probably not a good idea to confuse the taste buds with three different soups.   We liked this one well enough, the curry, ginger and lemon perked it up.    I'm including a photo, and your recipe is the darker colored soup in the three compartments.

[uhblondie]

Pretty good! I did change it up a bit though. I used a vidalia onion instead of red, brown lentils instead of red, vegetable broth instead of water, 6 cloves of garlic, dried ground ginger, extra curry, a dash of cayenne, ground black pepper, omitted the coriander, added fresh cilantro, and I added about 1/4 cup of spicy peanut butter (available from the Peanut Butter Co. at www.ilovepeanutbutter.com). I didn't peel my sweet potatoes because 1) I am lazy, and 2) all the nutrients are directly below the skin, so if you peel it, you peel away most of the healthy stuff. I used spinach (5 oz.) and 2 Tbsp. of lime juice. I served it with Luscious Coconut Bread also on this site. Yum.

[gravyboat]

Wow! What a soup! I added cauliflower as well and my husband was scraping out the remnants from the bottom of the pan, he liked it so much. And it made my house smell like Christmas! A great cold-weather soup!

[BIANCAROSE]

I made this the other night and I just have to say that it was amazing. Such a unique soup and so filling! Way to GO!

[blissmonkey]

This was easy and quite tasty. I too added fresh cilantro and upped the amount of curry powder (they vary so much from brand to brand.) Than I added a slosh of coconut milk, which really pushed this soup up to an even  higher level of "yum"! And it was even better the next day--let's see how good it tastes tomorrow, on Day 3!

[blissmonkey]

Yup, I was right--Day 3 was the best of all. Too bad that was also the end of it. Next time I'll make more and sit on my thumbs and wait a couple days to enjoy it! Oh, and my toddler scarfed it down--he also loved dipping Cheerios in it. (Ew!)

[~treehugginghippiefreak~]

delish.

[Xintriel]

I love this soup! I've made it 3 or 4 times now. Sometimes I make it with less water for a more soup-like consistency, and sometimes I make it with less so it's thick and stew-like. It's great poured over some saffron rice or with baked pita chips. I've also tried adding coconut milk like someone suggested and that was really good. Definitely a keeper!

[thirteenblackbirds]

this was alright.  it has an interesting combination of flavors, but overall it did not come together that well for me and it was just kind of meh. It was something different though and I'm happy I tried it.