Recipe: Perfect Pot Luck Chicken & Red Lentil Soup

Pot Luck Chicken & Red Lentil Soup.

You can cook Pot Luck Chicken & Red Lentil Soup using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pot Luck Chicken & Red Lentil Soup

1. Prepare 2 litres of homemade chicken stock or 2 Kallo chicken stock cubes.
2. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
3. You need 1 of medium onion, diced.
4. You need 2 of large carrots, diced.
5. It's 2 of celery sticks chopped.
6. Prepare 1 of red or green chilli, chopoed.
7. You need 100 g of red split lentils, washed.
8. You need of Whatever other vegetables you'd like to add.
9. You need of Leftover chicken (off the bone).
10. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
11. Prepare 0.5 tsp of garlic salt.
12. It's 0.5 tsp of onion salt.
13. It's 2 tsp of dried thyme or 4 springs of fresh thyme.
14. You need to taste of Salt & pepper.

Pot Luck Chicken & Red Lentil Soup step by step

1. Dice the onion, celery, carrots.
2. Chop the chilli.
3. Add the oil to a large point and when hot, cook the onions until softened, around 4 mins on a medium heat, careful not to burn them..
4. After 4 minutes, add the celery carrot and chicken and cook for a further 5 mins..
5. Add the chicken stock and bring to the boil. Add the the garlic salt, onion salt, bay leaves, thyme or whatever herbs you like fresh or dried and season to taste..
6. Add the lentils and simmer on a low heat for 15 mins. Then add the cooked hicken and simmer for another 10 mins..
7. Serve with freshly made bread but it's just as satisfying on its own!.