Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 c Green or brown lentils
1 Small onion
2 Cloves garlic, minced
1 Bay leaf
6 1/2 c Water
1 ts Salt
Fresh ground pepper
1 Bunch cilantro, chopped
1/4 c Plain non-fat yogurt garnish

Wash and pick over lentils. Combine lentils, onion, garlic, bay leaf
and water in a soup pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for
40 minutes. Add the salt toward the end of the cooking time. Remove
from the heat. Discard the onion and bay leaf. Put the soup through a
food mill or puree half of it in a blender. Heat through, add salt
and pepper to taste, stir in the cilantro, and serve, topping each
bowl with a dollop of yogurt.

Nutritional info: 177 calories; 5G protein; .75G fat; 30G
carbohydrate; 17MG sodium; 0 cholesterol.

SOURCE: "Entertaining Light" Martha Rose Shulman.

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