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Lentil soup with chicken

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## Ingredients
* 1 whole chicken breast; * salt - to taste; * 3 liters of water; * 2 onions; * 1 dried bay leaf; * 500 grams of red lentils; * 2 tablespoons butter; * 2 medium carrots; * 1 medium tomato; * 3-4 cloves of garlic; * ground chili - to taste; * seasoning for chicken - to taste; * a handful of any crackers.
## Cooking
Boil the breast in salted water with the addition of 1 onion and bay leaf until ready. It takes about 30 minutes. Take out the chicken and remove the onion and laurel. Put the lentils in the broth, bring to a boil and cook on medium heat for 15–20 minutes.

In the meantime, melt the butter in a pan and put the raw onion, carrot, tomato and garlic, cut into medium pieces. Salt and cook under a lid for 10 minutes. Remove the lid, add chili and chicken seasoning and fry for another 5 minutes.

Put the mixture in a pan with lentils. Season with salt, stir and boil for a couple of minutes. Season the soup with a blender and serve with chicken breast pieces and crackers.

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