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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Rinse the lentils. | 2. Bring them to a boil in the beef broth. | 3. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 40 minutes. | 4. Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a heavy soup pot. Saute the onions until translucent. Add the garlic, cayeene, bay leaves and bulgur. | 5. Stir the mixture on medium heat until the onions and bulgur are lightly browned. | 6. Mix in the parsley and tomatoes. | 7. When the tomatoes begin to give up their juice, gently stir in the tomato paste. Pour the lentils and their liquid into the soup pot with the onions and bulgur. | 8. Simmer the soup for 15 minutes. | 9. Add the rosemary, salt and pepper to taste. If the lentils and bulgur have absorbed too much liquid, add more broth, water or tomato juice. Remove the bay leaves. | 10. Just before serving, stir in the fresh spinach and let it wilt in the hot soup. | 11. Garnish with more fresh parsley. | 12. NOTES : Serve this soup with crusty bread. | 13. Broil the bread on both sides, rubbed with a cut garlic clove, and drizzled with olive oil. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
lentil	1	cup	uncooked	81.62	17.0478	6.8992	0.4235
nonfat beef broth	5	cups		-	-	-	-
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
olive oil	1/4	cup		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
onion	2	cups	chopped	128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
cayenne	1/4	teaspoon		1.431	0.2548	0.054000000000000006	0.0777
bay leaf	2			-	-	-	-
bulgur	1/2	cup	raw	239.4	53.108999999999995	8.603	0.9309999999999999
parsley	1/4	cup	chopped	5.4	0.9495	0.4455	0.1185
tomato	2	cups	chopped	53.64	11.5922	2.6224	0.596
tomato paste	1/4	cup		54.12	12.4806	2.8512	0.3102
rosemary	1	pinch	dried	0.0573	0.0091	0.0014	0.0026
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
spinach	2	cups	chopped	13.8	2.178	1.716	0.23399999999999999
parsley			chopped	5.4	0.9495	0.4455	0.1185

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.