Very Special Lentil Soup

Very Special Lentil Soup

Snow flurries today so this soup really hit the spot for lunch.
I have been making it for as long as I can remember.
The original Special Lentil Soup was in a book called
The Happy Herbivore by Jaime Lass and published in
Edinburgh in 1979 that my brother David and his wife
Sylvia gave me very many moons ago.

You need

8oz red lentils
4 cups vegetable stock (again I use Marigold vegetable bouillon
1 tsp marmite
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp cayenne
a little olive or sunflower oil
2 large onions chopped
Salt, pepper and oregano to taste
2 bay leaves
6 cloves garlic chopped
8 oz mushrooms sliced
1 tbsp lemon juice and1 tbsp sherry

Cook the lentils in the stock until soft.
Add ginger, cayenne,marmite,salt,pepper oregano and bay leaves.
Saute the onons in the oil until soft,then add garlic and then mushrooms,
Turn for a couple of minutes until the mushrooms have just darkened.
Then add to the lentils and simmer for at least 15 minutes.
Add lemon juice and sherry just before serving.