Stoup

I decided to take another cue from the Mennonite girls who can cook... This time, a lentil and sweet potato chili. ...And we have another winner! :-)

It's a very colorful dish, visually, and it has a lot of flavor. We decided that it's really more like a soup or a stew than a chili, however (although you can taste the chili element, too), so we decided to compromise and call it "stoup". We would have called it "stewp", but that already exists in the Lulich family.

Basically, you start with oil in a large pot - then add chopped up onions, celery, and carrots (a "mirepoix") with a bunch of spices (cumin, cinnamon, nutmeg, chili powder, red crushed peppers, salt & pepper). Then add the chopped up sweet potatoes, lentils, diced tomatoes and tomato paste, black beans, and broth (we used chicken broth). Bring to a boil, then let it simmer about half an hour until the potatoes are nice and soft. Voila! Guten Appetit! We think it will make 6 or more bowls-full.