Dinners/Lentil and Spinach Soup

Serves: 6

Active Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

From: Fresh January/February 2010

Ingredients

1 tsp Olive oil

1 ea Large onion, chopped

1 ea Medium celery stalk, chopped

2 ea Cloves garlic, minced

1 cup Brown lentils, rinsed

6 cup Water

14 1/2 oz Canned diced tomatoes

1/2 tsp Seasoned salt

3 tsp Herb, parsley, dried

1 ea Bay leaf

7 oz Hannaford Inspirations Baby Spinach- Chopped

1 tsp Red wine vinegar

2 ea Nature's Place precooked Spinach Chicken Sausage

Directions

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