This delicious vegetarian soup is full of fiber and protein from lentils. It’s great for cold weather since it contains warming ginger.  It’s also loaded with iron from lentils and potassium and vitamin A from squash.

Ingredients (4 servings):

1 cup dried brown lentils
1 cup winter squash cubed
1 can diced tomatoes
1 garlic
1 teaspoon ground ginger
8 cups stock
Parsley
Salt

Bring water to boil, add lentils, minced garlic and cook 15 minutes. After that time add cubed squash, tomatoes, ginger, parsley and salt and continue cooking 15 more minutes or until both squash and lentils are soft. Decorate with more fresh parsley and serve.