Lentil & Chicken Soup
Four portions of soup with 34 grams of protein each, from one pot and mostly pantry. The lowest-fat main in the kit at 11 g, which makes it the one to reach for on a cut.
Four portions of soup with 34 grams of protein each, from one pot and mostly pantry. The lowest-fat main in the kit at 11 g, which makes it the one to reach for on a cut.
Makes 4 servings. Prep 5 min, cook 20 min.
150 g is the planner's default protein target. Work out yours from your weight and goal, free.
Red lentils are the reason this takes twenty minutes and not an hour. They need no soaking, they collapse as they cook and thicken the soup on their own, so there is no blending step. Rinse them first to take off the dust, and use a stock you would drink on its own, because it is most of the flavour.
The chicken is already cooked when it goes in, which is where this recipe earns its place in a prep week: leftover roast chicken, the extra thigh from the sheet-pan recipe, or a shop-bought rotisserie bird all work. It only needs to warm through; simmering cooked chicken for long makes it stringy.
Lemon at the end, off the heat, is the step that makes people ask what is in it. Cumin and lentils are earthy, and the acid wakes them up. This keeps four days in the fridge and thickens as it sits; loosen with a splash of water when reheating. It freezes well in single portions.
Lentil & Chicken Soup is one of the 15 recipes in the Mise kit. Drop it into the seven-day grid and the Google Sheet adds its 34 g of protein to that day's total against your target; the ingredients roll into a shopping list sorted by aisle. Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter) included.
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