Delicious and with too much flavor Lentils soup

LENTILS SOUP

On this cold season nothing better than a hot soup and why not to give a try to a lentils soup, delicious and with a lot of flavor. Note: If you prefer, strain the tomato sauce that you blend and at the end thicken it If necessary add cornstarch dissolved in water. 2 tablespoons of cornstarch diluted in 1/2 cup of water and add 10 minutes before serve, stirring with the spoon at low heat. In some Mexican states fried plantain is added, I did not add because I did not find it, but if you want to try it, it gives a delicious flavor. The only thing you need to do is cut into slices and fry it. Add 10 minutes before serve. It will give to the soup a delicious and different flavor too..

Ingredients:
250gr. Lentils.
1 Potato.
1 Carrot.
100-150gr Bacon.
4-5 Tomatoes.
1/4 Onion
2-3 Garlic.
Pepper to taste.
Salt to taste.
1/2 tsp. Cumin.
1 tsp. Vegetable stock powder.
1/4 tsp thyme.
1 Cinnamon stick
1 Bay leaf.
1/4 tsp. Oregano.

How to prepare:
1. In a blender, add the tomatoes, onion, garlic, pepper to taste, salt to taste, cumin, vegetable stock powder, thyme, cinnamon, bay leaf and oregano. If you have vegetable or chicken stock powder just add instead of using water and dont add the teaspoon of vegetable stock powder. Mix perfectly.
2. In a pot. Add water and the lentils and put to boil.
3. Meanwhile if like me, want to add bacon, is the time you need to fry without using too much oil because the bacon had already oil.
4. When lentils starts to boil is the time to add the bacon and the sauce that you mix in the blender, in my case I add the sauce without strainer because I wanted to be thick, but f you want you can use strainer before add to the lentils.
5.Add the potato in cubes and the carrot in cubes and leave to boil for 1 hour in medium-low heat.
6. If you want also you can add the secret ingredient of my mom, she likes to use Plantain and it gives a very delicious flavour, if you want to add the plantain just cut into slices not to thin and fry until lightly brown and then 10-15 min before the hour add to the lentils.

Enjoy your delicious lentils soup.