Lentils and Dumplings Soup

Prep Time: Ten minutes

Cook time: Forty Five minutes

Serves: Eight persons

Description
This delicious and healthy lentil soup was brought to Trinidad by the Syrian/Lebanese Community.

Ingredients
Directions&nbsp
 * 2 cups lentils
 * 2 large onions
 * 2 ounces butter
 * 10 cups water
 * 3 teaspoons salt
 * 1 teaspoon blackpepper
 * Dumplings: 1 cup flour, quarter teaspoon salt with 2 ounces water and two tablespoons olive oil.

-Boil two cups lentils in ten cups water for forty minutes or until soft. Add three teaspoons salt and one teaspoon blackpepper to water.

-While lentils are boiling, peel and dice two large onions and fry/sautee with two ounces butter in a large saucepan until golden brown, then add to boiling lentils.

-Knead one cup flour, two ounces water and two tablespoons of olive oil.

-Pinch off and roll into quarter inch dumplings and throw into boiling soup.

-Boil for ten more minutes and voila.