Quick green (laird) lentil soup

Some dishes are really easy and quick to prepare. Something you wouldn’t  expect from lentils, to be so easy to prepare and on the table within 30 minutes.

However, although some dishes, even when speaking of a sandwich, can be prepared within minutes, this does not mean that one should eat them fast or carelessly. For many reasons, I think it is important to take time and attention to eat. Let’s say, always eat your food with a generous helping of mindfulness. 

Good for your digestion and good for your mind, it enables you to relax. Of course it is easy to relax at a full dinner table, but one should treat lunch at work with the same mindfulness. We’re all talking about the stress at work, the rate at which society urges us to live. And for what? To get a burn-out? To get indigestion from eating too hastily? If there is a secret to staying happy and relaxed at work and diminish the risk of a burn-out, it is taking your time to eat at lunch time, not at your desk, move away from your desk and go to another room or outside and encourage your colleagues to join you.

Green (laird) lentil soup

Ingredients

150 gr green laird lentils

1 small onion, chopped

1 teaspoon Provençal herbs

¼ teaspoon savoury (sarriette).

Salt to taste (around ½ teaspoon)

½ teaspoon rice syrup (substitute with honey)

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Method

Wash the lentils (and if you have time, soak for 4 hours). Cover lentils with cold water (about 3 cm above the lentils), bring to a boil, scoop off the froth. Add Provençal herbs and savoury.

Boil lentils on a low flame until soft and the consistency of the soup is a slightly thick.

Check in between if more water is needed.

Fry onions.

When lentils are very soft add salt, pepper, fried onions and rice syrup, boil for one minute.

Turn off heat and leave stand until served.

Tastes great with mash potatoes with olive oil or plain rice. And for a full meal: complement it with red cabbage and a cucumber salad.

By the way: this recipe has nothing to do with lunch, but everything with speed and mindfulness!