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Hearty Lentil Soup

Brown lentils simmered with carrots, celery, and cumin into a thick, filling soup.

Hearty Lentil Soup, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
52 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.23

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup brown/green lentils
  • 7 cup vegetable broth
  • 3/4 lb carrots
  • 1/2 bunch celery
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 14 1/2 oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 lemon

Method

  1. Cook the diced onion, carrot, and celery in the olive oil over medium heat for 8 minutes.

  2. Add the minced garlic, cumin, and smoked paprika and cook 1 minute until fragrant.

  3. Rinse the lentils and add them with the diced tomatoes, the broth, and the salt.

  4. Bring to a boil, then simmer partly covered for 30 minutes, until the lentils are soft.

  5. Mash a ladleful against the side of the pot and stir it back in to thicken the soup.

  6. Finish with the juice of the lemon, which is what keeps it from tasting flat.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 12 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£38.18£9.5512 of 12 ingredients
Canada$129.39$32.3512 of 12 ingredients
United States$40.92$10.2311 of 12 ingredients
Australia$45.36$11.3411 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$76.91$19.2311 of 12 ingredients
Greece28,25 €7,06 €11 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏٨٩٨٫١٧ ج.م.‏‏٢٢٤٫٥٤ ج.م.‏11 of 12 ingredients
Spain18,81 €4,70 €11 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 34,69€ 8,679 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$722.31*$180.588 of 12 ingredients
Germany20,72 €*5,18 €7 of 12 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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