Detox Lentil Vegetable Soup

Detoxify with the best detox lentil vegetable soup recipe ever – perfect for nourishing your body and getting back on track.

Although we cleanse twice a year, this detox lentil vegetable soup recipe keeps the cleansing going all year round.  The best detox stops us from putting harmful foods into our bodies.  But, as we all know, we can't control everything other than what we put into our bodies.

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• Juice Cleanse vs. Food Cleanse
• Other Ways to Begin Your Day with a Healthy Habit
• Incorporating More Lentils in Your Diet
• Detox Lentil Soup Recipe Ingredients
• The Benefits of Detox Soup
• How to Make Detox Soup
• Recipe FAQs
• Tips
• More Healthy Vegan Soup Recipe
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Juice Cleanse vs. Food Cleanse

For instance, in a previous post, To Cleanse or Not to Cleanse?, I explain why my husband and I juice cleanse twice a year, drinking only juice.

The belief around detoxing is to deal with environmental exposure to toxins, gastrointestinal health, and autoimmune diseases, regardless of their origins. During the cleanse, one juice we love is celery juice, which is high in levels of vitamin C and K, and assists in digestion and detox.

Other Ways to Begin Your Day with a Healthy Habit

• Also, I start each day with a cup of warm lemon water. You only need to squeeze fresh, organic lemon into a cup of warm water to get your digestion flowing.
• Another trick is to drink two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar diluted in water to aid in healthy digestion.
• Both versions help get everything moving before you even begin your day.
• Regardless of your current diet or health, detoxing provides an added health benefit to your diet.

Incorporating More Lentils in Your Diet

Lentils contain various essential nutrients such as dietary fiber, lectins, and polyphenols that help reduce the risk of conditions like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and some cancers.

For that reason, try making a lentil meatloaf, lentil falafel, lentil stew, or a lentil burger!

Detox Lentil Soup Recipe Ingredients

• Carrots: The fibers in raw carrots work much in the same way to bind toxins as charcoal, making raw carrots a key player in lowering estrogen levels and bringing back proper hormonal balance. A raw carrot salad daily aids the body in its natural detoxification process.
• Baking Potatoes: Whole potatoes aren't a bad carb. They provide many essential nutrients, like potassium, vitamin C and fiber. Potatoes also have resistant starches, which may contribute to supporting a healthy gut.
• Red Lentils: Lentils are low in sodium and saturated fat, and high in potassium, fiber, folate, and plant chemicals called polyphenols that have antioxidant activity.
• Celery: Celery is considered a kidney tonic and can promote kidney health. For all of those reasons, and also because drinking the celery juice is a non-caffeinated way to hydrate in the morning and give you an energy boost, celery is a great way to start your day.
• White Onion: Scientists have linked onions to many possible health benefits, most of which come from the antioxidants in onions. Antioxidants help prevent cell damage in your body. Research shows that one particular antioxidant, quercetin, protects health in several ways, such as fighting inflammation and boosting the immune system.
• Garlic: Garlic is a powerful detox food that promotes glutathione production by various liver enzymes.
• Vegetable Broth: I buy organic low-sodium, sugar-free vegetables broth from Costco.
• Turmeric: Turmeric also helps your body to detoxify by helping your liver to modify, inactivate and eliminate toxins and excess substances produced by the body (including hormones).
• Ginger: Due to the sharpness and tingling that is so characteristic of ginger, you could already guess: ginger is a powerful detoxifier.
• Herbs de Provence: The herbs de Provence blend traditionally includes thyme, oregano, summer savory, and rosemary.
• Salt: Salt enhances the flavors in the soup.
• Onion Powder: Onion powder gives the soup additional flavor.
• Garlic Powder: Garlic powder adds depth of flavor.
• Black Pepper: Black pepper can help detox the body. According to studies, it helps enhance the detoxification enzymes and reduces DNA damage. Combining black pepper with turmeric enhances the body's ability to absorb the turmeric benefits.
• Crushed Red Pepper: Cayenne also has healing properties, and herbalists have used it for years to build immunity, fight off colds, soothe ulcers, and help detoxify the body.
• Spinach: Green superfoods such as kale and spinach help increase alkalinity and detoxification in your body, promoting healing. They are also rich in vitamins A, C, and K and folic acid and calcium, potassium, copper, and iron.
• Parsley: It helps increase bile production and gastric juices, which are imperative for proper enzyme functions for food and nutrient absorption. Heavy metals bind to parsley and are removed by the bowels.
• Lemons: I used lemon juice and zested it.
• Red Wine Vinegar: The probiotics in unpasteurized red wine vinegar can help to improve the microbiome and our digestive system.

The Benefits of Detox Soup

• Throughout the year, I also like to make soups, as well as salads and main dishes which contain cruciferous vegetables and leafy greens.  
• Detox Lentil Vegetable Soup, for example, combines detoxifying vegetables with an organic vegetable broth.
• I used celery, carrots, garlic, onion, spinach, ginger, and turmeric for this particular batch. As a result, each vegetable chosen contributes to detoxification.
• Health professionals claim cruciferous vegetables boost liver health through anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral effects.
• They’re also high in fiber, which encourages the excretion of toxins.
• For instance, Spinach contains chlorophyll, a detoxifying plant pigment. 
• Garlic and onions, for example, help boost your body’s ability to process food and eliminate waste.
• Of course, lentils are high in fiber and protein, another bonus to the digestion system.

How to Make Detox Soup

As I have often said, my crockpot is one of my favorite appliances. This soup tastes fabulous, but I also make it in the crockpot, so it cooks while you work.

1. Place all ingredients in the crockpot.
2. Cover and cook on high for 5-6 hours or low for 7-8 hours.
3. Place about 4 cups of soup in a blender or use an immersion blender(do not blend entire crockpot; instead blend for only a few minutes to keep half the soup chunky)
4.  Pulse gently until semi-smooth and creamy-looking.
5. Add back to the crockpot and stir to combine.
6. Stir in the kale and parsley.
7. Turn the heat off and allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.
8. The taste gets better with time.
9. Add red wine vinegar before serving if you like a little tang. 

Since it's cold outside, detox lentil vegetable soup is the perfect soup to ward off germs and colds.

Recipe FAQs

Tips

• Some ingredients stand up to and benefit from longer cooking times more than others. After cooking, spinach, lemons, red wine vinegar, and parsley are added.
• Cut all the vegetables the size. This ensures that all the ingredients will cook at basically the same rate.
• Use the right amount of liquid. There is very little evaporation in the slow cooker. If you’re adapting a regular soup recipe, it’s likely that you won’t need to use all the liquid called for. Put all your ingredients in the slow cooker and then pour the broth over top. It should cover the vegetables by about ½ inch. If you have excess liquid at the end of cooking, remove the lid for the last 30 minutes to let some of it evaporate.
• Root vegetables will take longer to become tender than, say, cauliflower. Nestle those items around the bottom and sides of the slow cooker, where they will directly contact the slow cooker’s heating element.
• Vegan recipes are best cooked for around four hours but can do a minimum of two or six hours (after which the vegetables start to get unpleasantly mushy).

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