🥕 Red Lentil Vegetable Soup · by Jill Dalton
🔧 SOS-free teaching suggestions (adaptation not tested) · 🌐 External recipe · 🎥 Video on the recipe page · 🆓 Free to view, no account needed · 📅 Checked October 16, 2026
👩🍳 Creator and host: Jill Dalton, on The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show (plantbasedcookingshow.com)
🍲 Soup · 👥 serves 6 · ⏱️ about 55 minutes · 🍳 one pot · 📦 great for leftovers
🌿 Our description: Red lentils cook down with onion, celery, carrots, mushrooms, and diced tomatoes, seasoned with cumin, oregano, turmeric, and parsley, with frozen spinach stirred in at the end. Jill calls it a soup she makes every week. 🥣
🎬 Watch this recipe: Jill’s own video of this soup, shown on her recipe page.
🔄 Make It the Kitchen Monk Way
No oil or sugar. Two ingredients carry salt:
| Ingredient | Kitchen Monk swap | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Low-sodium tamari (1 tablespoon) | Leave it out; add a squeeze of lemon and a little extra cumin or smoked paprika at the end | 🔧 Swap |
| Low-sodium vegetable broth | Use salt-free broth or water | 🔧 Swap |
| Diced tomatoes | Choose a no-salt-added can or carton | Label check |
🧪 We have not tested these swaps. 📊 We have not calculated nutrition for this recipe.
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