Vegan Lentil Soup (Middle Eastern Style)

This vegan lentil soup is a blended Middle Eastern style lentil soup, made with red lentils and blended for a super creamy and delicious soup!

This vegan lentil soup is simply amazing! It has a wonderfully rich flavor and is so creamy you’ll swear it must actually have cream in it, but nope, nothing like that. It’s really just sooo good.

This is the style of lentil soup that we came across again and again while living in the Middle East. I have since discovered that not all lentil soup is made this way and it’s very often made as a chunky, not blended, soup.

But this is really my favorite. It’s so creamy and satisfying and it’s also incredibly easy with just 6-ingredients. 

It serves four as an appetizer, or two as a main course and it’s 14 grams of protein per bowl if you’re serving it as an appetizer, or 28 grams of protein per bowl if you’re serving it as a main course.

So it packs a protein punch in a most delicious and satisfying way. 

And if you love lentils then definitely check out our vegan lentil curry, lentil bolognese, red lentil dal, lentil ragu and vegan dal makhani.

Ingredients You’ll Need To Make This Soup:

Ingredient Notes

• Red lentils – it’s important to use dried red lentils or split red lentils in this soup. This is because red lentils cook relatively quickly and also get quite mushy when cooked so are ideal for blending. 
• Carrots – should be sliced quite thinly so that they don’t take too long to cook.
• Vegetable stock – or broth. The vegetable stock we use is quite salty, so if you’re using a low sodium stock or broth then you’ll likely need to add extra salt to the recipe.

How To Make Vegan Lentil Soup

Full measurements and instructions can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is just a summary of the process to go along with the process photos. 

• Add chopped onion to a pot with some olive oil and dried cumin and sauté until the onions are softened. 

• Add chopped carrot and toss up with the onions.

• Add the red lentils and toss them with the carrots and onions. 

• Add vegetable stock and mix everything together. 

• Bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover the pot and simmer until the lentils are soft and cooked. 
• Use an immersion blender to blend the soup until smooth. If you don’t have an immersion blender then transfer the soup to your blender jug and blend it up in stages, returning to the pot once blended. 

• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Your soup is ready to serve!

Serving Suggestions

Serve into bowls and top with fresh chopped parsley and a sprinkle of ground black pepper with some lemon wedges on the side and you have a really good high protein meal or a fabulous appetizer. 

If you want to be a real cooking superstar, well, you could make your own whole wheat bread to serve with it or some delicious vegan focaccia (as pictured).

Recipe Tips

If your soup is bland, add more salt. The vegetable stock we use is pretty salty so we never need to add extra salt. But if you taste test and find it in any way bland then you simply need to add more salt. And of course add some pepper too, to taste.

Make it oil-free. If you would prefer it to be oil-free, then you can simply sauté the onions with a little water or vegetable stock instead of the oil. This soup is just as delicious oil-free.

Storing and Freezing

Keep leftovers stored in the fridge and enjoy over the next 3-4 days.

This soup is also freezer friendly for up to 3 months so you can definitely make up some to freeze and have later if you like. 

More Vegan Soup Recipes

1. Vegan Carrot Soup
2. Vegan Potato Soup
3. Vegan Tomato Soup
4. Vegan Sweet Potato Soup
5. Vegan Pumpkin Soup
6. Vegan Butternut Squash Soup

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