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Prepping Vegetables for Lentil Soup

Learn how to prepare and wash vegetables for lentil soup stock in this free vegetarian video on making your own lentil soup recipe.

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start by prepping our vegetables first we're going to scrub and trim up everything so your just going to scrub around and to get any dirt from that and then trim off any bad looking spots, we're going to leave the skin on cause the skin has some good nutrients in it. But we want to make sure that there's not dirt or anything like that for the kohlrabi or if you have parsnip we'll just chop it not chop it but leave it in big chunks. For the potato just scrub them up to make sure there's no dirt we're going to leave the skin on it cause like I said the skin has some good nutrients in it, and normally you would go by the sink and wash up these vegetables in the sink, but I'm for purposes of showing you I'm going to do it in a bowl of water like this. Just chop those potatoes into large chunks you don't have to be to picky about it, and for the carrots we'll wash those up. We're going to leave the skin on so you just want to scrub off and make sure you get any dirt, we'll remove the tips and the ends and for the carrots we're going to chop them up small not so large. So quarter the carrots like this using a large knife a large bladed knife is good and to get good stability you can hold the knife like this, hold on to pinching the blade and that gives you good stability while your cutting. And you can get a good chop now when your chopping never go straight down like this it's to hard to work always keep the blade moving in a slicing rolling fashion like that. We'll quarter the carrot like so and then chop it into medium size pieces we want to chop these carrots smaller than the potato and the kohlrabi because we're going to be browning them a little to bring out they're flavor, and that'll make the broth good continue that with the rest of the carrots.