After a morning of walking around Istanbul’s three greatest sights in the slight rain, you can imagine how good it felt to sit down to a bowl of this:

It was not too thin, but not too thick, either, with a very smooth taste. Eventually I squirted in some lemon from the wedge, and that was even delicious. Though the rest of the lunch was tasty, I would have been just as happy with a couple more bowls of this soup.
Lentil soup is one of the best combinations of amazing taste and low price you can find in the food world. While some recipes include various vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, carrots) and herbs (mint is very common, and paprika too), some are no more than lentils, broth, onions, and some kind of oil.
(Note: Although many of these recipes call for a meat stock, I’m going to label it as vegetarian because the switch to vegetable broth is an easy one to make.)
Want to make it yourself? Try one of these recipes:
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