½litrechicken stockuse home made, or a chicken stock cube 4p
½litrewater
1carrots1.5kg/49p, 150g, 5p
1stick celery43p/head, avg 12 sticks, 4p
1tspsalt
1tspturmeric49p/40g, 5g. 6p
1fat clove garlic 4/79p, 2p
10gfinely grated ginger69p/125g, 6p
1red chillifinely chopped 51p/65g, 5p
Instructions
Spicy Red Lentil Soup
Sauté chopped onion, carrot and celery until the onion is transparent. You could even leave this step out if you like and just tip all the ingredients into a saucepan and go straight to simmering it.
1 onion, 1 carrots, 1 stick celery
Add the red lentils, salt, turmeric, garlic and ginger and chopped chilli
350 g red lentils, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp turmeric, 1 fat clove garlic, 1 red chilli
Add half a litre of chicken stock and half a litre of water. Or use all water and a stock cube
½ litre chicken stock, ½ litre water
Simmer gently for 20 minutesClick to start a 20 minute timer
Whizz if you want to, I usually do.
Notes
What changes can I make to this high protein lentil soup
change the spices, use a spoon of any curry paste for instance
leave out the spices all together
use green or brown lentils instead of red lentils. Or use a tin of chick peas
add a splash of cream to make your soup creamy
add more, or less, chilli, according to your taste
use stock made from boiling a gammon joint for a completely different flavour
add shreds of chicken, ham, pork or prawns
The other recipes in the how to stretch a chicken series
Roast chicken, 400g chicken, gravy, with stuffing, 4 portions
Risotto, 140g chicken, onion, half the the stock, some vegetables, butter and parmesan, 4 portions
Pizza, 117g chicken, tomato sauce, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Pasta, white sauce, 120g chicken, peas or green beans, onion, pepper, sweetcorn, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Tart, 100g chicken, peas, carrots, onions, couple of eggs, no cheese, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Pie, 100g chicken, some of the gravy, onion, maybe some sweetcorn or mushrooms, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Soup with the remaining half of the stock, 4 portions - this recipe
this comes out at a total of 28 portions, which I think is pretty good!This means that 1 medium chicken can be used to make 7 different budget stretching chicken recipes and feed your family for a week – bargaintastic!