Ruby Harvest Soup

• 1 red onion
• 1 small butternut squash or approx half an orange one
• 1 beetroot, peeled
• 2 carrots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 8 fresh tomatoes or 1/2 cans

Chop all these except the garlic into smallish cubes (does anyone ever do cubes?? – ‘Smallish chunks’) and sauté in olive oil for 10 minutes. 

Add: 

• 3 handfuls red lentils
• the chopped garlic
• 1 can coconut milk

Stir and add enough stock to cover the lentils with a couple of cms to spare

Add:

• 1 generous sprig thyme if you have it fresh
• 1 heaped teaspoon each gr cumin, turmeric, smoked paprika.

Simmer for 40 – 50 minutes. 

I blend half of it.

You can freeze this.