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Beef Barley Lentil Soup

“It's easy for Judy Metzentine to fill her slow cooker and forget about supper...until the kitchen is filled with wonderful aroma, that is! 'I've served this soup often to family and friends on cold nights, along with homemade rolls and a green salad,' she writes from The Dalles, Oregon. For variety, she suggests substituting jicama (a starchy root vegetable found in the produce department of many grocery stores) for the potatoes.”

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Reviewed: Feb. 8, 2012

Great recipe, I made it with bison. Also anytime i make a long simmering soup i put the veggies and onion in first, then fish out the old tired ones and put fresh chopped veggies in a half hour before done. I mixes garlic and onion powder in with the beef, splashed it with worcester sauce and let it marinate in the fridge for an hour or two. Then I browned it in a generous amount of oil and added all that into the pot for a richer flavor. it tastes super meaty and I only added two patties of bison (all i had in freezer). I didnt have an potatoes and its good even without. My fiance is inlove with this soup.

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mab7077

Reviewed: Feb. 1, 2012

Tasty recipe! I cooked this stove top in about 30 minutes (had some precooked lentils in the fridge). I left out the potatoes and barley to cut carbs (diabetic) and ended up adding fresh garlic and garlic powder, and a dash of Tony Chachere's. I also used stew meat. Will be using this again! THANKS!

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BelleTeteRouge

Reviewed: Jan. 30, 2012

The slight changes I made are: 8 cups of beef broth instead of water; omitted potatoes; used dried tomatoes instead of stewed tomatoes since most stewed tomatoes are stewing in some type of preservative. Everything else is same. Because I used beef broth, it turned brownish in color as opposed to clear like you see in the pic. But the taste is better I think since fr reading the reviews some have said it tasted bland and needed spices. The beef broth made it tastier. Also, stick with using both the lentils and barley since it looked better with the combination of both.

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Sharon

Reviewed: Mar. 27, 2011

I liked it but really needed to bump up the flavors. Instead of potatoes I used button mushrooms, used a couple cans of beef stock and simmered on the stove top for 2 hours instead of slow cooker. Other then that I originally kept to the recipe. After tasting I added bay leaves, garlic powder, Worcestershire, basil, black pepper and a little cayenne. I'd give my finished product 5 stars. I'll be making this again!

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cjucoder

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 22, 2011

Super easy and delicious!

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firewallender

Reviewed: Mar. 1, 2011

Great easy meal for my perpetually hungry husband. I subsituted ground venison for beef which I browned in bacon fat for added flavor. I also adjusted the lentils to 1/2 c., water to 6 c. and tomatoes to 1 can. Spiced with a little curry, allspice, salt, pepper and bayleaves.

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missymakes

Reviewed: Feb. 27, 2011

I omitted the potatoes because of all the starch. My family was not crazy about this one.

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edwardsfamily5

Reviewed: Feb. 18, 2011

we loved this meal.....corn bread and ready. we have two additional meals so cutting it in half may work when cooking for two.

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SUNCITYMEG

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA

Living In: Bluffton, South Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 18, 2011

I don't like to cook, but have been trying to get excited about my crock pot. This soup was super easy to make!! It came out great, I didn't do anything to change the recipe. Hubby really liked it and so did my 1 yr old daughter! I will be making it again.

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