{"id":917,"date":"2012-03-21T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-03-21T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:21:19","slug":"bacon-lentil-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Bacon &#038; Lentil Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-918\" title=\"Bacon Lentil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best way to help the humble lentil shed it hippie image? Add bacon of course! The trick to serving this soup in under thirty minutes is to cook the bacon while preparing the rest of the soup in another pot. Chopping the rosemary allows it so soften and flavour the soup in this short time as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 30 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>6 slices bacon \u2013 cut into matchsticks<\/address>\n<address>1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil<\/address>\n<address>1 large onion \u2013 chopped<\/address>\n<address>1 clove garlic \u2013 finely chopped or crushed<\/address>\n<address>8 cups water<\/address>\n<address>14 ounce can lentils \u2013 rinsed and drained<\/address>\n<address>2 teaspoons kosher salt<\/address>\n<address>\u00bc teaspoon fresh ground black pepper<\/address>\n<address>2 teaspoons fresh or dried rosemary \u2013 chopped<\/address>\n<address>10 ounces mixed broccoli &amp; cauliflower florets<\/address>\n<address>\u00bc cup Italian parsley &#8211; chopped<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p><strong>Preparation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Place a heavy pan over medium-low heat and cook the bacon until crispy. Remove the bacon from the pan with a slotted spoon and set aside.<\/p>\n<p>While the bacon is cooking, place a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil, onion and garlic, stirring often for five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the water, lentils, salt, pepper and rosemary to the pot and turn heat to high. Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer for ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the broccoli and cauliflower to the pot and simmer for five more minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Remove from heat then stir in the bacon and parsley, serving immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Get the PDF and nutrition info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the best way to help the humble lentil shed it hippie image? Add bacon of course! The trick to serving this soup in under&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,10,32],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bacon-Lentil.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}