This is one of my almost Turkish recipes. It was inspired by Turkish lentil soup (Mercimek Corbasi).
1 cup green split peas
1/4 cup white rice
1 onion
1 bell pepper or banana pepper
1 potato
1 carrot
2 cloves of garlic
1 tsp mint (fresh or dried)
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil or butter
salt
7-8 cups of water
optional:
curry
gren chili
turmeric
parsley
dill
You can replace green split peas with yellow split peas or yellow lentils.
There are different ways to make this soup. You can use a pressure cooker or a regular pot, and you can use a food processor/a hand blender or grate / chop finely all the ingredients.
1-If you have a pressure cooker and a blender, put everything in the pressure cooker and cook first on high and then low heat for 20 minutes. Then use the blender to smoothen the soup.
If you won't use a blender, then grate or chop finely everything before you cook them.
2-If you want to use a regular pot, put everything in the pot and cook until the peas are soft. Again you can either smoothen the soup with a blender after it's cooked or grate or chop everything beforehand.
Squeeze a little bit of lemon or lime juice before you eat.
