Slow Cooker Lentil Soup

By McLean

Ingredients

• 4 cups hot water
• 1 (14 1/2 oz.) can tomatoes
• 1/4 cup tomato juice
• 3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
• 3 carrots, thinly sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 rib celery, sliced
• 1 cup dry lentils
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 teaspoons curry powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt (may not need with ham/kielbasa)
• Sour cream

Details

Servings 10

Preparation

Step 1

Combine all ingredients except sour cream in slow cooker.
Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Remove bay leaf (and ham bone, if used -dicing meat from bone and returning to cooker).

Serve with sour cream on top of individual servings and crusty bread as a go-along.

NOTE:
Can add ham bone or thinly sliced kielbasa.