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Summary: Learn how to clarify lentil soup stock and what it means to clarify in this free vegetarian video on making your own lentil soup recipe.
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Karen Weisman Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel and Food Management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop a... read more
Hi this is Karen for Expert Village we strained our soup our vegetable stock and as you can see there's a lot of bits and pieces in it now that's fine to use and if you and especially for the lentil soup that it's a thick soup, this is fine to use. But if your going to use the vegetable stock for something else and you want a clear stock then you can restrain it with a straining cloth or 2 to 3 layers of cheese cloth. Now if you wet the straining cloth the cheese cloth before it's a little easier to put in your colander and you just fit it into your colander like that, you can use a cheese cloth. This is a straining cloth and then you restrain the stock through the cheese cloth or the straining cloth and you'll see you'll get a nice clear stock, it takes a little bit longer to strain it because it's going through the finer holes, then a regular colander. But just let it sit there and you can see its a lot clearer and it'll catch all the little bits and pieces that the colander did not catch before.