🫘 Three-Bean Soup with Turmeric and Lentils · by Dr. Michael Greger & Robin Robertson, NutritionFacts.org
🔧 Salt-, oil-, and sugar-free teaching suggestions (adaptation not tested) · 🌐 External recipe · 🆓 Free to view, no account needed · 📅 Checked October 29, 2026
👩🍳 Creator and host: Dr. Michael Greger and Robin Robertson (from The How Not to Diet Cookbook), on NutritionFacts.org
🍲 Soup · 👥 serves 4 · ⏱️ about 1 hour of simmering, by the recipe’s steps · 🍳 one pot · 📦 great for leftovers
🌿 Our description: Brown lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas, and cannellini beans simmer in a turmeric-gold broth, finished with lots of spinach, parsley, scallions, and mint. 💛
🎬 Video: the recipe page shows a short NutritionFacts.org Instagram clip, which we haven’t checked; we found no YouTube video of this exact recipe, so none is shown here.
🔄 Make It the Kitchen Monk Way
No oil or sugar. The broth it links to adds salt:
| Ingredient | Kitchen Monk swap | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Light Vegetable Broth (7 cups, linked recipe) | The linked homemade broth includes white miso; leave the miso out, or use water or a salt-free broth (untested) | 🔧 Swap |
| Super-Charged Spice Blend (to taste) | Check the linked blend, or use your own salt-free spices | Label check |
| Canned beans | Salt-free, as the recipe says | As written |
🧪 We have not tested these swaps. 📊 We have not calculated nutrition for this recipe.
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