This soup can be boiled in water, but tastes better in chicken broth. The broth can be cooked in advance or just before cooking the soup. In a saucepan, pour the 2 liters of water and spread the pieces of chicken meat. I usually take the meat on the bones of what remains after cutting the chicken carcass and this is the back. Bring to the boil, removing the foam and put the whole onion and peppers: sweet and black polka dots. Not salted. We prepare everything we will need for the soup.

Strain into a pot where we cook the soup, broth. We need 1,5 l. Set on fire. Once the broth is boiling, put the lentils in it. Mushrooms clean from skin and cut arbitrarily thin. I cut always "mushrooms". Put either in the pan or, like me, on the appropriate form and put in oven for 10 minutes at t-180 With zavalitsya. In our soup we will intensify the mushroom flavor!

While Wallis mushrooms, lentils have cooked 10-12 minutes. Put it with the mushrooms.

Meanwhile, make the casserole filling to the soup. Pour the olive oil, which can be replaced by sunflower. Heated it and send it to ozolotilsya onion, chopped finely. After a couple of minutes to be sent to the onions grated carrot. Diminish the fire, cover with a lid and tormented the vegetables for 5-7 minutes.

Lentils with mushrooms, we are ready and we send the contents of the skillet to them in the pan. Cook for another 5 minutes. Salt the soup to taste.

Preparing spices.

Put them into the soup and cook the soup another couple of minutes. The soup is ready! Remove from it the Bay leaf.