Cascia Lentil Soup

Lentil soup is a tasty and easy-to-make dish, perfect for cold autumn and winter days.

Ingredients:
500 g Cascia lentils (does not need to be soaked), 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 stalk of celery, 1 potato, 1 large tomato (a little tomato puree is also fine), 100 g sweet or smoked bacon, ½ glass of wine, rosemary to taste, salt and pepper to taste. olive oil to taste.

Method:
In a large saucepan, prepare a sauté with a pinch of olive oil, celery, carrot adn onion, previously well-minced. Once the sauté has browned, add the bacon cut in small pieces, and brown it for a couple of minutes. Now add the lentils (the lentils do not need to be soaked), the diced potato and tomato and a spring of rosemary, then cook for a couple of minutes, just long enough to flavor the ingredients in the sauté. Simmer with half a glass of wine until reduced. Once the alcoholich part of the wine has evaporated, add enough hot water to coat all ingredients thoroughly. It is necessary to cover all the ingredients well. Add salt and pepper according to your tastes and cook the soup over low heat for about 45 minutes. The dose of water to add varies according to your tastes, based on how ''creamy'' you want the soup. We highly advise against adding too much water at the beginning of cooking, but adding it in case the soup results too ''dry''. Once the soup is ready, if you want you can enjoy it with a pinch of oil in a slice of bread or use it as a base for a good pasta dish.