Indian winter soup

Was a bit heavy on cinnamon for my personal taste and I’m not a fan of pearl barley but with a few tweaks will make again

Go easy on the cloves

Subbed out the barley with buckwheat (I'm gluten free). Because buckwheat doesn't need to pre-soak took between 30 & 45 minutes & just added it in with the lentils. Does have a lot of different ingredients, but if you make Indian food a lot they are mostly pretty standard. Lots of flavor - enough that my husband didn't notice the fact that there wasn't any meat. Filling & great leftovers (although mine needed a little extra liquid the next day). Next time might just use carrot instead of parsnip if I don't have parsnips around, although the color difference was nice (the rest of everything was pretty orange).

Didn’t realise the pearl barley should have been soaked to speed up the cooking time. Lots of ingredients! Actually took approx 1 hour 45 inc cooking the barley.