Sopa de Lentejas (Colombian-style lentil soup)

Name: Sopa de Lentejas (Colombian-style lentil soup)
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 1 tsp vegetable oil; 230 g chorizo; 80 g onion; 2 pc garlic; 80 g spring onions; 90 g tomatoes; ¼ tsp ground cumin; 1180 ml water; 270 g dried lentils; ½ tsp salt; ½ tsp black pepper; 60 g carrots; 100 g potato; ½ tsp cumin powder; 120 ml heavy cream; 15 g fresh coriander; 15 ml lime juice

A hearty Colombian lentil soup with chorizo, vegetables, and a creamy cilantro-lime topping.

90 min 571 kcal/serving serves 4

571kcal26gprotein56gcarbs28gfat

Erica DinhoView the original on mycolombianrecipes.com More from Erica Dinho on Mello

🫗vegetable oil

🌭chorizo

🧅onion

🧄garlic

🧅spring onions

🍅tomatoes

🫙ground cumin

💧water

Amounts and 9 more ingredients unlock with a free account

Shop this recipe's ingredients

Mello turns any recipe into a shopping list and integrates to select grocers to order them.

Get Mello free

About Erica Dinho

Colombian home cook and founder of My Colombian Recipes

Erica Dinho is the creator of My Colombian Recipes, a long-running blog dedicated to traditional Colombian home cooking. She has spent years documenting regional dishes and family recipes, helping introduce Colombian cuisine to a wider audience online.

Her recipes stay close to traditional Colombian home cooking, built around staples like plantains, corn, pork, and beans, with dishes ranging from hearty soups such as ajiaco and sancocho to fried snacks like patacones and buñuelos. She favors classic techniques and familiar regional flavor combinations over reinvention, aiming to make dishes like tamales antioqueños and bandeja paisa approachable for home kitchens.

Ten Colombian recipes on Mello, imported from mycolombianrecipes.com.