Measles Spots Soup

Ingredients

• 2 onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 carrots
• 2 celery stalks
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon paprika powder
• 1 liter vegetable stock
• 400 g canned diced tomatoes
• 200 g red lentils
• 8 eggs
• 2 large vine tomatoes
• salt and pepper to taste
• fresh parsley, chopped

Method

1. Peel and chop the onions and garlic. Dice the carrot and celery.
2. Heat olive oil in a soup pot. Sauté onion and garlic until translucent. Add carrot and celery, cook for 3 minutes.
3. Add cumin and paprika, briefly fry. Add diced tomatoes, red lentils, and stock.
4. Bring to a boil, simmer for 20 minutes until lentils are soft. Coarsely blend with an immersion blender.
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Meanwhile, hard-boil the eggs for 8 minutes. Cool, peel, and halve them.
7. Slice the vine tomatoes into thick rounds.
8. Ladle the soup into deep bowls. In each bowl, place two egg halves dome-side up as 'domes', and arrange tomato slices as bright red spots around them.
9. Sprinkle with parsley.

Serving notes

• Serve with rustic bread to soften the disaster.
• Place the egg halves and tomato slices visibly on top for the 'measles silhouette'.