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Add this soup to your menu to incorporate all you favorite vegetables!

 

 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 2 teaspoons chili powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 6 ounces spicy tomato-vegetable juice
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 cup dried lentils, sorted and rinsed
  • 2 cups canned, diced tomatoes, undrained
  • 4-1/2 ounce can chopped green chilies, undrained
  • 1 cup frozen, canned or fresh whole kernel corn
  • 2 cups sliced zucchini

Directions

  1. Heat onion, chili powder, salt, cumin, garlic and tomato juice to boiling in a 3-quart saucepan; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 5 minutes.
  2. Stir in water, lentils, tomatoes, and chilies. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 20 minutes.
  3. Stir in corn, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in zucchini, cover and simmer about 5 minutes or until lentils and zucchini are tender.

Yield: 6 servings

 

Nutrition Facts  
Servings Per Recipe: 6   
   
Amounts Per Serving  
Calories: 177  
  % Daily Value
Total Fat: 1 g 2%
Saturated Fat: Trace Amounts 1%
Cholesterol: 0 mg 0%
Sodium: 307 mg 13%
Carbohydrate: 34 g 11%
Dietary Fiber: 13 g 51%
Protein: 12 g 24%
   
Vitamin A 25%
Vitamin C 111%
Folacin 45%
Calcium 5%
Iron 23%
Potassium 21%

*The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

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