Lentil Soup With Frankfurters

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup lentils, dried quick-cooking
• 6 cups water
• 2 slices bacon, diced
• 1 leeks or 1 green onion, finely chopped
• 1 large carrot, finely chopped
• 1 stalk celery, stalk, finely chopped
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons unbleached flour
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 4 frankfurters, thickly sliced
• 1 tablespoon catsup, tomato
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Recipe

• 1 wash the lentils thoroughly.
• 2 in a 2 1/2-quart saucepan bring 6 cups of water to a boil.
• 3 add the lentils, bacon, leek or green onion, carrot and celery.
• 4 simmer, partially covered, for 30 to 40 minutes.
• 5 meanwhile in a frypan, saute chopped onion in vegetable oil until soft.
• 6 sprinkle flour over onion, and stir.
• 7 lower heat, stir constantly, and cook until the flour turns a light brown.
• 8 do not burn flour.
• 9 stir in 1/2 cup of hot lentil soup into the browned flour; beat with a wire whisk until well-blended.
• 10 beat in vinegar.
• 11 add contents of frypan to lentil pan and stir together.
• 12 cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until lentils are soft.
• 13 add the frankfurters and catsup.
• 14 cook to heat frankfurters through.
• 15 season with salt and pepper and serve hot.