Ingredients in order of appearance: -

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• 100g of butter

• 2 large sweet potatoes roughly cubed

• 3 large carrots roughly sliced

• 1 apple, peeled, cored and roughly chopped

• 1 medium chopped onion

• 1/2 cup of washed lentils

• Thumb of ginger finely chopped ( optional )  

• 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

• 1 teaspoon of salt

• 1 teaspoon of cumin

• 1/2 teaspoon of chilli powder

• 1 teaspoon of paprika

• 1 vege stock cube

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Add the 100g of butter to a large pot on medium heat. 

 

Throw in the sweet potatoes, carrots, apple and onion and cook for around 10 minutes or until the onions are kinda translucent. 

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Add the washed lentils, ginger if using, black pepper, salt, cumin, chilli powder and paprika. Mix it all up. 

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Make up like 500ml of vege broth with a stock cube and boiling water and pour that in too.

 

Bring to the boil, lid and simmer for 30 minutes or until everything is soft. 

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Now you need to blend the whole thing. Ideally you have a stick blender which you can just stick in the pot. If not you're going to need to carefully pour the soup into a standing blender and zap it until smooth. Alternatively, I guess you could us a potato masher to mush it all up, the soup will be a bit more chucky but should taste just as good.

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