HEARTY MEAT, LENTIL & SPLIT PEA SOUP
24 June 2025 / Posted in Dinner
Easy meals
A delicious and inexpensive all in one meal for the colder months. Omit the meat for a vegetarian version, it's still just as flavourful.
INGREDIENTS
Serves 8 -10
600 - 800 g beef shin or other soup or stewing meat
1 - 2 large onions, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 small butternut, peeled and cubed
1 - 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 - 3 celery stalks with leaves, chopped
1 tin (410 g) chopped tomatoes
1 - 1,5 litres chicken or vegetable stock
125 - 250 ml brown lentils
125 - 250 ml split green peas
2 - 3 baby marrows, sliced
salt & freshly ground black pepper
METHOD
- Cover an AMC 8 litre Speedcooker®II with a normal AMC 24 cm lid. Heat on a medium temperature until the Visiotherm® reaches the first red area.
- Brown half the meat then set aside before browning the remaining meat. Remove from cookware.
- Sauté onions for a few minutes before adding garlic and vegetables. Sauté further.
- Add tomatoes, stock, lentils and peas to unit with the meat. Seal with the Speedcooker®II lid. Set pressure setting valve to high pressure. Continue to heat over a medium temperature until steam is released from the valve. Reduce temperature slightly to maintain pressure and cook for 15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and open only once the red pressure valve has dropped.
- Place Speedcooker®II back on stove, heat on medium and add baby marrows to the soup. Thin soup with water or stock if required. Season to taste and cook baby marrows for 5 minutes before serving.
