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Red lentil soup

Name: Red lentil soup
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 200 g Red lentils; 1 pcs Onion; 1.2 litres Water; 30 g Butter; 1 tsp Cumin

Turkey’s default soup. Four ingredients, thirty-five minutes and one rule: the lemon is squeezed at the table.

35 minTime

250Kcal / serving

1001Total kcal

Method

Soften the onion in butter for five minutes without colouring it.

Starch gelatinised The granules soaked up water, swelled and burst into a network. It has thickened, and it will firm further as it cools. no way back

If you want a crust, do not stay under 140 °C. Food cooks at this heat but never colours.
Rinse the lentils, add them with the water, and once it boils drop the heat and leave the lid ajar.

Starch gelatinised The granules soaked up water, swelled and burst into a network. It has thickened, and it will firm further as it cools. no way back
Simmer for 25 minutes until the lentils collapse. Salt whenever you like — it does not toughen lentils.

Starch gelatinised The granules soaked up water, swelled and burst into a network. It has thickened, and it will firm further as it cools. no way back
Blend it smooth and add the cumin.

Starch gelatinised The granules soaked up water, swelled and burst into a network. It has thickened, and it will firm further as it cools. no way back
Squeeze the lemon at the table, never into the pan.

Why Lemon aroma is volatile: simmered in the pan it leaves, and only the sourness stays behind.

Starch gelatinised The granules soaked up water, swelled and burst into a network. It has thickened, and it will firm further as it cools. no way back

What the model could follow

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Servings

4

Ingredients

200 g Red lentils
1 pcs Onion
1.2 litres Water
30 g Butter
1 tsp Cumin

What did you think

Who is eating

Everyone A baby under one Pregnant A child An athlete

The 1 rules we hold for this group did not fire for this dish. That does not mean the dish is suitable for them; it means those particular rules did not apply.

Not about the dish — about the person

Salt in a day

5 g 2000 mg

An adult Context established

Under 5 g of salt a day, which is under 2000 mg of sodium — just under a teaspoon. A label usually gives sodium, and the two are not the same number: salt is about 2.5 times the sodium.

World Health Organization, Salt reduction

Free sugars

10%

Strong recommendation — adults and children Context established

The same share for adults and for children. Ten per cent of a 2000-calorie day is roughly 50 g of sugar, and a single can of a fizzy drink is more than half of it. The risk of weight gain, obesity and tooth decay rises above this line.

World Health Organization, Information note about intake of sugars recommended in the WHO guideline for adults and children, 2015

Not on this site: There is no guidance here on eating during pregnancy — caffeine, fish, iron, folate, none of it — because we have no source for any of it. Ask the doctor following the pregnancy.

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Diets

Gluten-free Suitable as it is
Vegan Suitable with a substitution Butter Instead: Butter → Olive oil / Tahini
Vegetarian Suitable as it is
Lactose-free Suitable as it is
Diabetes-friendly It depends

This verdict comes from the recipe\u2019s own ingredient list. The label on a packaged ingredient is always the last word.

What a swap costs

Butter → Olive oil No reaction in this recipe is lost. +12 kcal · +1.4 g fat · -0.1 g protein
Butter → Tahini No reaction in this recipe is lost. -9 kcal · -2.1 g fat · +1.2 g protein

Computed weight for weight. A ratio per pair would be better, and there is no sourced table of them, so the assumption is stated rather than hidden.

Calculated nutrition

250.1 kcal
12.9 g Protein
35.5 g Carbohydrate
6.8 g Fat
6.1 g Fibre

Per serving, computed from raw weights as bought. Cooking drives water off and sometimes adds fat, and neither is accounted for.

composition figures unsourced · held in the system

Taste profile

What it tastes like

No axis sits clearly above the average: a balanced recipe.

Sweet 14
Salty 3
Sour 0
Bitter 14
Umami 19
Heat 4
Richness 26
Aroma 28

This profile is computed rather than measured: the role-weighted average of its ingredients’ taste vectors, shifted by what the cooking does. The thin line is the database average on that axis.

Computed similarity

Closest in taste

Not hand-picked: ranked by distance across the eight taste axes.

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