Slow Cooker: Armenian Apricot Soup

Ingredients:

1 cup dried lentils

6 cups water

1 onion, diced

2 carrots, diced

1 cup apricots

1 tsp ground cumin

nutmeg

ground cinnamon

Greek-style yogurt or sour cream

fresh mint

Instructions:

1. In slow cooker, combine lentils, water, carrots, onion, apricots and cumin. Sprinkle with nutmeg and cinnamon.

2. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours, or until vegetables are tender.

3. Puree the soup using a food processor.

4. Garnish with yogurt or sour cream and fresh mint.

This soup was quite delightful, and amazingly easy. The apricots are definitely the strongest of the flavors, so it had a very sweet warmth. I also made a salad to go with the meal; the salad was spinach, carrots, chopped pear, slivered almonds, and dried cranberries with a raspberry dressing. Accompanied by some white wine, it was overall a very sweet and fruity meal.