Recipe

Spicy Lentil Vegetable Soup

Name: Spicy Lentil Vegetable Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups water; ounces raw mung beans; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 4 ounces boneless pork loin, cut into 1-inch cubes; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 4 ounces peeled and deveined prawns; 1 small tomato, diced; 3 cups chicken broth, or more as needed; 8 ounces fresh spinach leaves

This mongo guisado (mung bean soup) is a hearty soup that's excellent on its own or with rice. Mongo beans are also called mung or green beans. Malungay leaves are very nutritious, and the tree is sometimes called a horseradish tree; use them in place of spinach if you can find them.

Prep 20mCook 60mTotal 80mServes 6

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Instructions

1
Bring water and mung beans to a boil in a pot; boil until beans are soft, about 40 minutes. Mash beans; set aside.
2
Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Add pork. Season with salt and black pepper; cook and stir 3 minutes. Gently stir in prawns; cook 2 minutes. Add tomatoes; cook 3 minutes more. Reduce heat. Add chicken broth; stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
3
Add mashed beans; mix well. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent soup from sticking to bottom of the pot. Add more chicken broth or water if soup is too thick. Stir spinach leaves into soup; cook 2 minutes more. Serve hot.

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