Monika's Vegan Soup - 100% of all essential proteins for a balanced diet in one bowl of soup. Basically no fat and absolutely no cholesterol in this masterpiece. I ran it through a Diet analyzing program and found it met all the requirements of a healthy balanced diet that when combined with 5KM of walking per day creates a healthy, lean and strong body that will eventually reach its ideal body weight with a body mass index (BMI) of 21. We all need a bit of fat in a balanced diet but we need the unsaturated type and Hummus delivers a nice balance of bean protein and healthy fats to a fat free vegetable/vegan soup meal.
You'll notice no butter, no meat and no cow's milk. If you want milk I heartily recommend "SO Good" brand soy milk - regular - it has the consistency of 1% milk and makes an excellent substitute in recipes looking for dairy creams. The lentils in this recipe have all the essential proteins found in meat. The only reason meat has those essential proteins is because the animal once ate and stored these proteins in its own body for its own use and health. You can bypass that step altogether and get an even higher quality of essential proteins by consuming beans or lentils yourself. Beans give you gas and lentils don't - therefore my choice of lentils in the soup.
First - get your biggest pot - the one you would do mason jar canning with.
Ingredients
