Ingredients
3 tbsp rice bran oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
⅓ cup dried apricots
1½ cups red lentils
5 cups V8 vegetable juice
3 tomatoes, peeled & chopped
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp dried thyme
SIDS SALT & PEPPER to taste
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tsp SIDS CRAZY LEMON
Directions
Sauté onion, garlic and apricots in oil. Add lentils and V8. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes.
Stir in tomatoes and season with cumin, thyme and SIDS CRAZY LEMON. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Stir in lemon juice. Purée ½ of the soup in a blender, add SIDS SALT & PEPPER to taste, then return to the pot. Serve.
History: Lentils have been part of the human diet since aceramic (before pottery) Neolithic times, being one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. Archeological evidence shows they were eaten 9,500 to 13,000 years ago.
