Yesil Mercimek Corbasi (Green Lentil Soup)

Ingredients

• Green Lentils…….2/3 cups
• Milk………………….1 cup
• Water………………..6 cups
• Bread (stale)………2 thin slices
• Onion………………..1 medium
• Paprika……………..½ tea spoons
• Margarine…………4 table spoons
• Flour………………….2 table spoons
• Rice…………………..¼ tea cup
• Salt……………………2 desert spoons
• Egg……………………1 ea

Directions

Wash lentils and oak the night before in 1 cup of water. Peel, wash and finely chop the onion. Place in sauce pan with margarine, cover and cook for 2 – 3 minutes until tender, stirring from time to time, add flour and stir fry until slightly browned. Wash the rice, add to onion – flour mix -together with the lentils and the remaining water, stir until it starts to boil. Cook for 30 40 minutes. Pass trough a sieve or blend, add salt and replace on heat. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with milk, warm it by adding a few spoon full of hot soup. Add the egg – milk mixture to the soup gradually while stirring constantly and turn off heat when it comes to boil. Mean time, cut up the bread into 1 cm cubes and put on a tray and bake in the oven. Serve the soup with red pepper and bread croutons.