Lentil soup with fresh squid

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This is the time to cook the lentils. Here is a simple recipe, good and healthy.

Ingredients for 4 people:
400 g of dried lentils
1 carrot
1 celery
1/2 onion
1 clove garlic
salt
laurel
extra virgin olive oil
500 g fresh squid
parsley


Put the lentils to soak in cold water for half an hour (you could even avoid, but with soaking it facilitates the absorption of iron and minerals).
In a saucepan, sauté with a little of olive oil, a clove of garlic, celery , carrots and onion all finely chopped.
Add the lentils, cover of hot water, add a bay leaf and a little salt.
Let simmer until the lentils are cooked, … if necessary, add water.
Clean fresh squid, removing eyes, beak and cartilaginous part (the hardest).
Cut into julienne and pass for a minute in a pan with a little oil, salt.
Serve the soup, add the squid in the middle and finish with a few drops of extra virgin olive oil and a little chopped parsley.
Cuocere le lenticchie, come cuocere le lenticchie, cottura dei legumi, zuppa di legumi

How to make Sourdough

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Sourdough with fruit

100 g ripe fruit puree

200 g flour

50 g water

Mix all ingredients

Place the dough in a container containing a quantity of water at least 4 times the weight of the dough and the temperature between 20 and 24ºC ia.

Let rise for 48 hours at 26 / 28ºC.

The dough should come to the surface.

(If this had not happened you have to repeat the operation)

Mix with an equal weight of flour and 40% water.

Continue until you yeast has reached the right maturity.

From this moment on, you have to start making refreshments.

refreshments:

For refreshments so-called “carry”, where the yeast is kept alive, you add 50% of water on adding flour.

For the preparation of yeast dough, instead, is added to equal weight + 10% flour and 50% water on the weight of the yeast.

Example:

For 1 kg of yeast: + 1100 g flour + 500 g water.