By now we all know about the properties of garlic, both magical and medicinal. This simple soup can be used as the first course in a meal for your lover (garlic promotes lust and enflames the passions), or it can be used to help you kick a nasty cold. I have a chest cold right now and wanted something to help promote healing. I looked up some garlic soup recipes on the internet and found some tasty-sounding options, but in the end I decided to invent my own.
4 tablespoons red lentils
2 tablespoons rice
1 litre water
1 stock cube (you can use stock instead of water and skip the cube, but that's what I had)
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
15-20 cloves of garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
seasoning to taste
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a soup pot. Add the roughly chopped garlic and allow it to cook on medium-low heat until it becomes fragrant. Don't let it brown or it will become bitter. Add the red pepper flakes and stir. Add the lentils, rice, and stock or water and stock cube. Cover and simmer until lentils and rice are tender.
In a blender, scoop out the lentils, rice and garlic. Add enough of the liquid to make a creamy puree. Return to the soup pot and adjust the seasning.
Cooking the garlic in oil and then simmering it removes its pungency and leaves a delicate flavor. No strong garlic breath!
Feel better :)
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