Description
This Instant Pot Lentil Spinach Hearty Soup is filled with whole, healthy ingredients and it cooks in the Instant Pot for just 12 minutes but tastes like it’s been simmering all freaking day!
Ingredients
- Green Lentils – 1 cup.
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil – 1 tbsp.
- Onion – 1 medium, diced.
- Garlic – 6 cloves, minced.
- Carrots – 1 cup, diced.
- Sweet Peppers – 1 cup, diced.
- Spinach – 1 cup, frozen or fresh chopped.
- Tomato Paste – 2 tbsp.
- Cherry Tomatoes – 1 cup, sliced in half.
- Ground Cumin – 1 tbsp.
- Ground Coriander – 1 tbsp.
- Ground Turmeric – 1 tsp.
- Salt – 1 tsp or to taste.
- Water – 5 cups.
Instructions
- Press saute mode on Instant Pot. Add oil and once hot, add onion and garlic and cook for 3 minutes.
- Add the carrots, sweet peppers, spinach, and all the spices. Saute for 5 more minutes.
- Add the tomato paste and mix well.
- Add the tomatoes, lentils and water. Mix well, scraping any bits and pieces from the bottom of the pot.
- Close the lid of the Instant Pot and cancel saute mode. Select manual and cook on high pressure for 12 minutes. Once 12 minutes are up, release the pressure.
- Adjust salt as needed and serve.
