Fakes is a vegetarian Greek soup made from lentils: it is considerably easy to cook, homie and perfect to warm up during the coldest of winter nights. To make fakes more filling, you can use chicken broth instead of water.
Ingredients
Lentils: 3-4 tablespoons
1 potato
Vegetables: an onion, a carrot, a sweet pepper
1-2 cloves of garlic
Tomato paste: 1 tablespoon
Salt, pepper, oregano, dill, bay leaf: to taste
Cooking method
Prepare one liter of water or filtered chicken broth and bring it to the boil. Add diced potatoes and cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, roast chopped onion, carrot and sweet pepper in olive oil, with the addition of tomato paste or a peeled fresh tomato. Add roasted veggies to the soup. Rinse lentils, add them to the pot and cook for 15-25 (depending on how pureed you want the soup to be) minutes. After the heat is turned off, add finely chopped garlic and dill, some butter and, if desired, stripes of bacon or ribs.
Serve with lemon slices.
