Ezogelin Soup

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It is a traditional hot soup from Turkish cuisine. If you don't like hot, you can exclude hot pepper paste and red pepper flakes.

Ingredients:
150g onion, quartered
150g red lentils
20g rice

A pinch of black pepper
20g tomato paste
15g hot pepper paste
25g Thermomix vegetable stock
1400g water
15g finely ground bulgur
30g butter or margarine
1tsp red pepper flakes
1tbsp dried mint
Salt (if needed)


Optional
30g butter, margarine or olive oil
1/2 - 1 tsp sweet paprika

• Chop onions for 3 seconds on Speed 6. Clean down the sides of TM Bowl with spatula and repeat 2-3 times. Put chopped onions in a small pan

• Wash and drain lentils and rice. Put them in TM Bowl. 
• Add tomato and pepper pastes, black pepper, water and TM stock. Cook for 30 minutes at 100°C on Speed 2
• Add bulgur. Cook for 10 minutes at 100°C on Speed 2
• Saute chopped onions with butter until browned. At last add red pepper flakes and mint and mix. Add into TM Bowl right away. Add salt if needed (I didn't add)
• Cook for 10 minutes at 100°C on Speed 2
• Blend for 10 seconds on Speed 8

• Optional: Melt butter in a pan. As soon as melted turn off the fire, add paprika and mix. Serve soup into the bowls. Dress with 1-2 tbsp of paprika sauce and serve
• Optional: You can add also few drops of lemon juice

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It is adapted from "Modern Türk Mutfağı by Alev Kaman" with a few modifications