Bill's Grille Mulligatawny Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of yellow or red lentils ( I prefer yellow lentils but red lentils are easier to find in local food stores)
• 2 cups of chopped tomatoes ( or 1 can of chopped tomatoes if you're lazy)
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 2 Granny Smith apples cored and chopped
• 4 garlic cloves crushed and minced
• 1 tsp of fresh ginger peeled and chopped
• 1 1/2 tsp coriander spice
• 1 tbl cumin
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
  
• 2 Serrano chilies chopped (seeds included)
• 1 qt chicken or turkey broth (I use homemade turkey broth)

Directions:

Heat some olive oil in a soup pot. Add onion, ginger, garlic, and chilies and saute for a few minutes until onion is clear. Add lentils and spices and heat for a minute or so stirring constantly. Then add tomatoes, apples, and stock to pot. Bring to boil and simmer until lentils are cooked completely.

In several stages using a blender, thoroughly blend mixture and place each stage in bowl big enough to hold all the soup. When completed, pour the soup back into the soup pot (or slow cooker pot)and stir to mix well. At this point you may want to add more stock to thin the soup if you prefer. Sample the soup and salt to taste - you won't need much. You can add also cooked diced chicken.

Let the soup cool and refrigerate overnight.

Re-heat and serve.