Curry Lentil soup has always been a favorite of mine. This one is rather simple, but it gets the job done and taste great after biking.

The first thing to do is get your basic mirepoix together.  In this case, I used 3/4s yellow onion, 2 sm. carrots, 3 stalks celery, all fine diced.



At this point, I fire my camping stove up (it takes about 5 minutes to get going), and begin getting my soup pot hot.

Then I peel a couple of cloves of garlic and slice them very thin. If I had ginger, I would throw in about a thumb's worth (size of your thumb), but I use what I can. Add some olive oil to the pot and toss in the garlic. I like to put mine in first and get it a bit aromatic, before adding the mirepoix.



I then add about 2 TBL curry powder, 2 TBL garam masala, 1 TBL oregano, 3 packets of "burger king table salt", and a bouillon cube.


I then remembered that I had a tomato getting all soft and mushy from travel, so I chopped it up and threw it in. About an hour and a half later, we have soup!

I added a few squirts of Frank's Red Hot in to it as well, since the vinegar works well with lentil soups.  And obviously, this is extremely basic.  When I want to add some real flavor, I like to add things like garbonzo beans, cilantro, lamb, mint, bay leaves, spinach, cauliflower.  There's a lot you can do with curry and lentils.