Lima bean and leek soup

8 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
8cupsWater
cupLentils
cupLima Beans
cupWild rice
1largeLeek
¼cupTomato sauce or Ketchup
4dashesHot sauce or more
4dashesFish sauce
4dashesSoy sauce
2Chicken bouillon cubes

Directions

This recipe would be vegan if the fish sauce and bouillon cubes are eliminated and vegetable bouillon and extra soy used in their place.

I am sure it would taste even better with the addition of a good stewing chicken, but it was created from the materials on hand one weekend. The lentils are long cooked until they disintegrate to form a meaty looking and tasting stock, an effect that is enhanced by the tomato.

Bring the water to a boil in a soup pot and add lentils; simmer covered ½ hr or more. Add the lima beans and cook another ½ hour.

Add the rice and cook another 20 min. Add the chopped green portions of a large or 2 medium well washed leek[s] [They are sandy and there is always sand trapped in the outer leaves] and simmer 10 min. Add the sliced white portion of the leek and the remaining ingredients.

Simmer 15 min and serve. Submitted By JIM WELLER On 05-02-95