Well,well,well I finally got a moment to bring up some new stuff, here is a soup that I've made for my family, for Easter lunch.
More dishes from that event will be posted soon.
This lentils shrimp soup is easy to make and very delicious.
You need the following ingredients in order to come up with the dish right :
(for 4 servings)
8 oz red lentils
1 carrot medium size
2 celery ribs
1/2 bunch of cilantro
2 garlic cloves
1 chopped medium size onion
2 tbs of turmeric powder
4 shrimp U10 size
smoked paprika
olive oil
In a large soup pot bring to boil: lentils, chopped onion,diced carrots, chopped celery and garlic along with 1l of cold water.
In a small pan mix 2 tbs of turmeric with 1oz of olive oil, until become a paste.
Add the paste to the boiling pot stirring in.
After approximately 25 minutes, the lentils and vegetables are cooked well.
Add salt and pepper as well, according to your taste along with the chopped cilantro and remove the pot from the stove top.
Let it rest for 10 minute.
Prepare a marinade of:1 tbs of smoked paprika, salt, and a squeeze of lemon.
Coat the shrimp with it and gently saute them for 1 minute.
Remove the shrimp from the saute pan then chopped them or skewer each of them like in the picture above.
Process the content of the soup pot in in a blender or food processor, until becomes velvety .
The soup is ready, all you need to do is enjoy it.
Usually is hard to match wines for soups, but I got to tell you, we had a nice
2006 Kerner from Abbazia di Novacella, which was the perfect match.
The wine color goes from pale straw yellow with green highlights to pale gold; fruit aromas; fresh and medium bodied.
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