Healing Red Lentil Soup

Meanwhile wash and chop the ginger root and small tomatoes (choose ripe and aromatic ones if you can).
Then fry them on a medium heat in the spice mix.

Chop the onions and add them to the tomatoes.
Put a lid on and leave to fry for a bit, stirring occasionally until they are golden and the tomatoes fairly disintegrated.

Your lentil soup should be starting to smell really heavenly by now.
I just love Indian spices!

Add some of the garlic to the tomato mix and the majority to the lentil soup.
Add 2 cups of the lentil soup liquid to the pan, stirring to flavour the lentils with the nice spices.

Now put all the tomato spice mix into the lentil soup pot and continue to cook for 5 minutes.

Stiring occasionally. Wash and finely chop the spinach and sprinkle over the soup.
Mix it all together before serving – and there you have it:

A steaming pot of heart-warming healing lentil soup that will keep you going for weeks!
Add salt and pepper to taste.

You can serve it with brown rice and coconut oil.

Or for a quicker alternative whip some of your lovely frozen Sesame Soda bread out of the freezer.
Toast it and spread with coconut oil.

For an extra protein kick you can also serve 1-2 boiled eggs with your lentil soup – this works perfectly.

If you have guests who are not following the Candida Diet, this Lentil Soup is a good dish to make, because it just doesn’t taste like diet food.
And you can prepare it beautifully beforehand and only need to warm it up when they arrive. Easy!

And it’s also a great way to get people to eat spinach, who normally wouldn’t 😉 You simply can’t taste the Spinach!
I recommend you serve the Lentil Soup with toasted wholemeal pitta bread and salted butter. Delicious!

By the way if you haven’t had pitta bread – You can see what it looks like in the photo above this paragraph (not to be mistaken with the delicious looking bread in the foreground – which is my home baked Sesame Soda Flat-Bread 😉

You really can’t go wrong with this Healing Lentil Soup.
Even if you just throw the ingredients together without following the recipe – It’s very forgiving.

From my experience this soup is best enjoyed a few weeks into phase 3 of the Candida Diet, no sooner.

The only danger is to eat too much as it is so light and moreish – I’m not joking.
You try to eat only one bowl of it, hah!

One bowl with a small slice of soda bread and a big salad works fine.
Best enjoyed at lunch-time and with some acv beforehand to help digestion.

Any more or eating the lentil soup late at night would make you sleepy or could lead to a congested nose, itchy eyes or feeling bloated.
I tried it many, many times so I know what I’m talking about 😉

Your liver would most likely not be able to handle breaking down the big amount of protein…And don’t forget lentils do contain small amounts of carb/ starch which can potentially feed candida.

Don’t get me wrong – Lentils really are super healthy! So Lentil Soup makes a fantastic addition to your staple dishes. During the Candida Diet & thereafter. It’s just that you’ll have to test whether at this stage your body can already take it.

If you are very hungry it might be best to bulk the Lentil Soup out with some vegetables instead of having seconds of just lentils.
The veggies are easier on your digestive system, too. Broccoli or green beans for instance work really well with it.

Be sure to freeze a load. The lentil soup tastes just as tasty when re-heated.

Try adding roast chicken, turkey or other vegetables of your choice for a filling treat. Or serve a slightly thicker version of this soup as lentil patte the next day.

Either way, if you make the bigger amount for freezing, have 4-5 decent sized freezer pots handy.

Et voila – Lots of Healing Red Lentil Soup for You – Perfect 🙂